Study: Palliative Care for Medicaid Patients
Reduces Their Hospital Costs

 

A study of  four hospitals in New York State finds that using well-established palliative care teams to coordinate the care of seriously ill Medicaid patients can save money, at least in the hospital; their use reduced inpatient costs by about $6,900 per admission for the average patient.

Full article…from Wall Street Journal Health Blog

Linked from HEALTH CARE WEEKLY UPDATE, Barbara Roop & John Goodson, Health Care for Massachusetts, March 11, 2011.

 

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