Hospitalist model holds potential for big bed day reductions, huge savings in Medicare risk.
Can you cut your Medicare risk inpatient bed days in half? Proponents of hospitalist programs say you can, and you can claim big savings--some as high as the upper $20s PMPM--when you apply the model to Medicare risk. Find out how to generate such savings, and learn from the experience of the Riverside Physician Network, a California IPA that uses hospitalists to care for its 10,200 seniors.
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