Repeated ER visits, admissions of frail seniors signal need for social case management.
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%.
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