Jan 11 2012
National Journal: Study: Special Home-Visit Program Could Promote Prevention
A special Medicare program that stresses home health visits for patients with chronic diseases helped keep diabetes patients out of the hospital and may have lowered costs using time-honored prevention methods, researchers reported on Monday. Their findings, reported in the journal Health Affairs, supports changes made in the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act and could point to ways to help keep health costs down by preventing expensive complications (Fox, 1/9).
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. |