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Study: HHAs Cost Less, But SNFs Prevent More Hospitalizations

Published on Fri Mar 15, 2019

More patients should be discharged home due to comparable outcomes, lower cost, editorial suggests. Home care providers often use their cost effectiveness and ability to prevent rehospitalizations as a selling point and argument for better funding. But a new study says another setting is actually better at preventing readmissions. A study that looked at more than 17 million hospitalizations of [...]
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