Avalere Shows Home Health Interventions Associated With Lower Medicare Spending And Re-Hospitalizations For Patients With Chronic Illness

 

Medicare patients with diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or congestive heart failure that used home healthcare within 3 months of being discharged from a hospital cost the program $1.71 billion less and had 24,000 fewer re-hospitalizations than similar patients that used other forms of post-acute care over a two-year period. The analysis, released by Avalere Health, also found that if cumulated to the full set of Medicare beneficiaries in the study group that utilized other forms of post-acute care, the program would have saved an additional $1.77 billion.

Avalere Shows Home Health Interventions Associated With Lower Medicare Spending And Re-Hospitalizations For Patients With Chronic Illness