Healthcare Finance News July 22, 2021
Jeff Lagasse

Potentially avoidable hospital readmissions cost Medicare approximately $17 billion per year, research shows.

Value-based care analytics and technology company Signify Health is launching a solution called Transition to Home in more than 50 hospitals to provide Medicare patients with clinical and social care support as they transition from the hospital to the home, the company announced this week.

The solution is designed to complement existing post-discharge care coordination strategies at hospitals, health systems, clinically-integrated networks (CINs), and accountable care organizations.

Through virtual and telephonic clinical and social care coordination, Signify is emphasizing a holistic clinical model that supports Medicare patients for 90 days following discharge from an acute care facility. The company then collaborates with patients and their care...

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