Most pricey Medicare patient care may be unpreventable

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Most pricey Medicare patient care may be unpreventable

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Treating the costliest Medicare patients in doctors' offices instead of emergency rooms or hospitals whenever possible may not save as much money as originally hoped, according to a new study. After analyzing recent data on more than one million Medicare patients, researchers found that only about a tenth of the money spent on the program's most expensive patients was for care that could be provided without a trip to the hospital. "I think it's a more complicated problem than we thought," said Dr. ...

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