Home Care Saves Money on Rehospitalization

A recent study shows transitional care cut hospital readmissions for North Carolina Medicaid patients with complex chronic conditions.  This study abstract was published in Health Affairs.  North Carolina initiated a statewide population-based transitional care initiative to prevent current rehospitalization for high-risk Medicaid recipients in 2008.  The targeted patients were Medicaid recipients with complex chronic medical conditions.  It found that patients who received transitional care were 20 percent less likely to experience a readmission during the subsequent year compared to patients that did not receive transitional care.  You can download the abstract of the article by using the following link.  Unfortunately to obtain the entire article you will be required to pay a fee to Health Affairs.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/32/8/1407.abstract