Home Health & Hospice Week
Home Care Therapy Could Save Medicare Money
New study backs up industry’s assertions about therapy services.
Law- and policymakers looking to cut home care funding could be shooting themselves in the foot, a new study suggests.
Long-stay home care patients who received physical and/or occupational therapy were more likely to show functional improvements and less likely to be institutionalized, compared to patients who didn’t receive therapy, says the study published in the February issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
The study observed nearly 100,000 clients who had deficiencies in IADLs or ADLs in Ontario, Canada from 2003 to 2008.
Conclusion: "Our findings suggest that investment in Physical and Occupational Therapy services for relatively short periods may provide savings to the health care system over the longer term," says the study’s abstract, available online at www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993(13)00100-7/abstract.
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