High-cost frail elderly individuals accounted for 44% of total potentially preventable Medicare spending, despite only comprising 4% of the Medicare population, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
“For clinical leaders, finding areas of care where money can be saved and quality improved is an imperative but has often proved difficult,” Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH, from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and colleagues wrote.
“One approach that has received substantial attention recently has been focusing on high-need, high-cost patients. By
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