title: Repeated ER visits, admissions of frail seniors signal need for social case management.
abstract: Seeing repeated ER visits and hospital admissions by your Medicare risk seniors? Try using social workers to case manage them. Two IPAs in California reveal how using a social work case management model can help reduce utilization--possibly up to 50%.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019090:Case Management; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D007193:Independent Practice Associations / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016345:Medicare Part B / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D020414:Risk Sharing, Financial; D012495:San Francisco; D012947:Social Work; D014481:United States