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Independence at Home: A CMS Medicare Demonstration Reviving the Physician House Call Practice Model (Online Course) |
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Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with multiple chronic illnesses comprise less than 10% of the Medicare beneficiary population but account for more than 60% of Medicare's costs. In an effort to contain these costs, the Affordable Care Act directed CMS to conduct the Independence at Home (IAH) Demonstration to test home-based primary care for these high-need Medicare beneficiaries.
Home-based primary care is designed to provide comprehensive, coordinated, continuous, and accessible care to high-need patients and to coordinate health care across all treatment settings. Home-based primary care allows health care providers to spend more time with their patients, perform assessments in a patient's natural environment, and assume greater accountability for all aspects of the patient's care. This focus on timely and appropriate care is designed to improve overall quality of care and quality of life for patients served, while lowering health care costs by forestalling the need for care in institutional settings.
This panel will discuss how the IAH Demonstration will be implemented as well as the legal and practical challenges faced by physician house call practices in providing health care services in keeping with IAH's goals of increasing quality of care while reducing cost.
This online course includes downloadable course materials in PDF format.Click here to view the system requirements for this online course.
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During the checkout process, you'll be prompted to enter the name and e-mail address of the person who will be taking the online course ("course registrant"). An e-mail containing your personal link to access the course ("Course URL") will be sent to the e-mail address entered for the course registrant. Simply click on the link (or cut and paste it into your browser). If you are purchasing the course for someone else, please enter that person's name and e-mail address on the Course Registrants page during checkout. You can also write a note for the course registrant, which will be passed along in the e-mail.
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