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and total costs, and hospitalization overall masked significant reductions among patients in …

… Our primary hypotheses were that the patient-centered medical home intervention would
reduce rates of hospital and emergency department admissions and improve the quality of care …

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and costs and variation in medical … medical home at year two: cost savings, higher patient …

… to the needs of complicated patients by facilitating referrals, … may affect cost savings on the
larger system, by reducing inpatient … significant potential in reducing costs, improving quality of …

… of complex … a medical home will reduce rates of ER visits in the study population. This
hypothesis is based on the argument that the longer a patient is assigned to a medical home, the …

… for a patient-centered medical home initiative to reduce utilization and cost while improving
… that significant savings may be difficult to achieve even if emergency department visits are …

… evidence that the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) … in improving patient outcomes
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… that implementation of the medical home is associated with reduced costs and both lower …
interfaces have been too complicated, and reconciling data from different sources is difficult. …

… with patient-centered medical home designation can reduce … place to refer patients who
require complex evaluations or other … growth rates for emergency department (ED) use and costs …

… to reducing multiple ED visits and hospitalization for patients … in the current health care
reforms, it will be more difficult to … evaluating the patient-centered medical home: cost, utilization…