This case study highlights an accountable care organization’s home-based primary care program for homebound older adults, with early analysis of outcomes showing reduced acute care utilization.
Toolkit offers health care stakeholders in rural areas with practical information to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of community paramedicine programs.
The Independence at Home demonstration showed mixed results for Medicare savings and utilization, but participating patients and caregivers reported high satisfaction with the home-based primary care that they received.
Program based in affordable housing sites for older adults and people with disabilities has favorable impact on Medicare and Medicaid expenditures and helps residents remain in community settings.
Home-based primary care integrated with long-term services and supports in the community can delay long-term institutionalization in frail older adults without increased costs for home- and community-based services.
Telehealth interventions had similar outcomes to in-person care for different services and populations, but did not consistently impact utilization such as physician or emergency department visits.
Examines how home meal delivery programs show promise for reducing the use of costly health care and decreasing spending for dually eligible individuals.