title: Hospitalist model holds potential for big bed day reductions, huge savings in Medicare risk.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002140:California; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D017046:Cost Savings; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D020445:Hospitalists / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D020414:Risk Sharing, Financial; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce