Hospice News June 21, 2023
The Delaware Valley Accountable Care Organization (ACO) has leveraged a comprehensive, community-based palliative care program developed by its partner Main Line Health to reduce costs of care by $9,000 per eligible patient.
Among Delaware Valley’s palliative care recipients, hospital admissions were 50% lower and emergency department visits fell by 35%, generating about $9,000 in savings per patient during the last 90 days of life, according to Beth Souder, the ACO’s vice president of clinical operations.
“All our data was pointing to the fact that we had a huge opportunity at end of life and our patients with serious illnesses. So, with Main Line building this program, our job as an ACO is to stratify populations based on data,” Souder told...
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