Improving the Quality and Efficiency Of Health Care For Older Americans

post-acute, and home care settings. His briefing will focus on the concept of Guided Care, a new model of comprehensive health care that constitutes a type of ?medical home? for high-cost Medicare beneficiaries. In the first year of a recent federally funded, multi-site, randomized controlled trial at Johns Hopkins, Guided Care significantly increased the quality of health care for this population while reducing the total cost of its care by 11% ($1,365 per beneficiary per year).show less...