Health Equity

Reduce Health Costs By Nurturing The Sickest? A Much-Touted Idea Disappoints

Abstract: Improving health and lowering costs for the sickest and most expensive patients in America is a dream harder to realize than many health care leaders had hoped, according to a study published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.

Publication: Kaiser Health News

Date Published: January 8, 2020

Author(s): Dan Gorenstein and Leslie Walker

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