One method using in-home care that inspired hope in reducing health care spending may not be effective after all. Tending more to “super-utilizers” did not reduce hospital readmissions, according to a new study from The New England Journal of Medicine. Super-utilizers are the 5% of the patient population that make up half of the nation’s total health care spending. For years, health care providers have tried to better serve this targeted population to reduce their trips to the hospital and emergency rooms, in turn lowering overall health care spending. A seemingly effective program developed out of Camden, New Jersey, was built on the idea of “hotspotting,” a process that used teams of nurses, social workers and community health workers to visit and keep tabs on high-risk patients to avoid rehospitalization. But the hotspotting program may be flawed.
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Source: https://homehealthcarenews.com/2020/01/targeting-super-utilizers-with-in-home-care-may-not-curb-health-care-spending