Mar 21 2012
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog: Cutting Costs With Better Care For Advanced Illness
A better approach to advanced illness, including fewer hospitalizations, could improve quality of life and satisfaction for the sickest patients -; and save $25 billion in annual health-care costs, according to Gundersen Health System (Landro, 3/19).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. |