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Newspaper Highlights Regional Home Care Utilization Differences

Published on Thu Dec 12, 2013

Home care and other post-acute care providers are in the spotlight for increased Medicare spending and widely varying utilization across geographic regions. For example: "Medicare spends $8,800 on each Louisiana patient receiving home health care, $5,000 more than it spends on the average New Jersey senior. In Chicago, one in four Medicare beneficiaries receives additional services after leaving the hospital [...]
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