Cost-effective potential for home health care.
This article discusses the cost-effective potential of home health care. A forward-looking managed care system might find home health care an increasingly cost-effective bargain. Why is home health care evolving into a better locus for patient care? The home health care facilities are reducing costs and prices in response to new pressures from consumers and new methods of prospective payment.
Department of Health Services Management and Policy, School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
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