U.S. News November 1, 2017
The shift from ‘fee for service’ to population health management will be a long but necessary road, health experts say.
For one patient in his late 40s, near-weekly trips to the emergency room were the norm this summer as he battled frequent asthma attacks in the New York metro area.
That is, they were the norm until Mark Rosenberg, the emergency department chief of St. Joseph’s Healthcare System, found out what was causing the repeated visits: The patient lived right by a construction site, and the home’s only air conditioner was tiny and “right on his face” in the bedroom.
“In middle of a summer day, as they’re digging their ditches, this dusty dirt that’s been in the ground for...
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