Are medical homes a good idea and just what are they anyhow?<\/p>\n
It appears that the current administration in Washington will be launching a 3-year medical home program that may be an option for qualified Medicare<\/a> beneficiaries in states that are participating in this program. What it boils down to is those who do qualify will live in Medicare<\/a> housing where they will be seen on a regular basis by primary care doctors and other health care providers. Those other providers would possibly include social workers, therapists and nurse practitioners.<\/p>\n This is initially a pilot program to see if all goes well and to assess if Medicare recipients do get a high level of care offered to them. Overall though, the main reason behind this pilot program is to ideally reduce costs. Evidently the new program will offer access to things like dietitians and physical therapists, something not usually covered by the \u201coriginal\u201d (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are medical homes a good idea and just what are they anyhow? It appears that the current administration in Washington will be launching a 3-year medical home program that may be an option for qualified Medicare beneficiaries in states that…<\/span><\/p>\n