Study: Comprehensive primary care helps cut health care costs
A study in the Annals of Family Medicine found that patients seen by family doctors who provided more comprehensive care services were 35% less likely to be hospitalized and saw costs reduced by 10% to 15%, compared with patients whose doctors tended to refer them to specialists. "That is a huge bending of the cost curve," says Dr. Kevin Grumbach, who wrote a companion commentary. "This probably trumps any other innovation in terms of reducing Medicare costs."
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