Industry Note:
Home-Based Primary Care Saves Money, Project Shows
Published on Fri Feb 03, 2017
The second performance year of the Independence at Home Demonstration, which provides chronically ill patients with a range of primary care services in the home setting, saved Medicare $7.8 million in aggregate, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a release. That’s down from $10.6 million the first year. Seven of the 15 participating physician groups will receive [...]