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Using Community-Based Care Management to Lower Service Use, Spending Among High-Risk Patients

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This month's issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® features a study that examined the effectiveness of a high-intensity, community-based care management program for Medicare patients with complex medical and social needs. We sat down with 2 of the study's researchers—Purvi Sevak, PhD, senior researcher at Mathematica, and Cara Stepanczuk, MPA, researcher in the health unit at Mathematica—to discuss the study findings and their implications.

This month's issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® features a study that examined the effectiveness of a high-intensity, community-based care management program for Medicare patients with complex medical and social needs. Estimating the impact of the program on 6 utilization spending outcomes, the researchers found that the program reduced hospital readmissions and also likely reduced admissions and Medicare Parts A and B spending.

We sat down with 2 of the study's researchers—Purvi Sevak, PhD, senior researcher at Mathematica, and Cara Stepanczuk, MPA, researcher in the health unit at Mathematica—to discuss the study findings and their implications.

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Effects of a Community-Based Care Management Model for Super-Utilizers

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