Improving Care for High-Need, High-Cost Medicare Patients

On April 25, 2017, the Bipartisan Policy Center released the second in a series of reports designed to improve care for high-need, high-cost Medicare beneficiaries.

“Clinical evidence suggests that frail and chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries who are not dually eligible for full Medicaid benefits could often greatly benefit from the integration of non-Medicare-covered social supports into the medical care model offered to them in the Medicare program. For instance, non-Medicare-covered support services such as in-home meal delivery, non-emergent transportation to medical appointments, and targeted case management services have demonstrated the propensity for reducing the need for avoidable hospitalizations.”

Read the full report here.