{"title":"The medical home bends cost curve.","authors":"Sandra M Wood","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the Affordable Care Act is trying to manage health insurance, as well as mandating coverage, a number of projects around the country are trying to manage the underlying cost of health care. By bringing back the concept of a true primary care physician, who provides 90% of your care and coordinates with your specialists, these programs are bending the curve of health care cost trends. Most are seeing a reduction in emergency room visits and hospital days in the double digits. Others that are taking fee-for-service insurance out of the picture altogether are experiencing even higher reduction rates. The goal is to increase patient health, which includes the patient having an active role in understanding his or her condition, treatment options and self-care strategies. It is estimated that if all Americans had access to a medical home, our nation could save $37 billion annually.</p>","PeriodicalId":79563,"journal":{"name":"Benefits quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Benefits quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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While the Affordable Care Act is trying to manage health insurance, as well as mandating coverage, a number of projects around the country are trying to manage the underlying cost of health care. By bringing back the concept of a true primary care physician, who provides 90% of your care and coordinates with your specialists, these programs are bending the curve of health care cost trends. Most are seeing a reduction in emergency room visits and hospital days in the double digits. Others that are taking fee-for-service insurance out of the picture altogether are experiencing even higher reduction rates. The goal is to increase patient health, which includes the patient having an active role in understanding his or her condition, treatment options and self-care strategies. It is estimated that if all Americans had access to a medical home, our nation could save $37 billion annually.
在《平价医疗法案》(Affordable Care Act)试图管理医疗保险并强制覆盖的同时,全国各地的一些项目正试图管理医疗保健的潜在成本。通过恢复真正的初级保健医生的概念,他们为你提供90%的护理,并与你的专家协调,这些项目正在扭转医疗保健成本趋势的曲线。大多数医院的急诊室就诊人数和住院天数都出现了两位数的减少。其他将按服务收费的保险完全排除在外的保险公司正在经历更高的降价率。目标是提高患者的健康,包括患者在了解自己的病情、治疗方案和自我保健策略方面发挥积极作用。据估计,如果所有的美国人都能进入医疗之家,我们国家每年可以节省370亿美元。