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Study: Medical home concept reduces costs
Disease Management News, October 6, 2008
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A review of the patient-centered medical home system at the privately held Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania shows that it reduced hospital admissions by 20% and costs by 7%. However, a second study shows that adoption of the medical home concept is slow and that relatively low levels of infrastructure exist to support it.
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