Mar 1, 2011
Community-based Support Improves Health, Lowers Costs
The New York Times article, A Housecall to Help With Doctor’s Orders, describes an initiative where people from the community are paid a stipend to help people adhere to their health regimines at the patients' homes.
A study of AIDS patients found that the patients’ use of appropriate medicines rose — they were becoming adherent. At the same time, spending on hospitalization dropped by nearly two-thirds. Overall, patient costs dropped by 36 percent. Even taking into account the $6,000-per-patient cost of PACT, patient costs dropped 16 percent. And in a group of people who would likely have died if they had not been in the program, 70 showed clinical improvement.
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