Cost Analysis of Physician Assistant Home Visit Program to Reduce Readmissions Following Cardiac Surgery

Cost Analysis of Physician Assistant Home Visit Program to Reduce Readmissions Following Cardiac Surgery [1]

The utility of a home visit program for patients discharged to home after cardiac surgery was assessed comparing a 4 year cohort of home visit patients to patients operated prior to the home visit program initiation. Home visits decreased readmission rates by about 40%. Costs per readmission were $40,000 to $56,000, whereas the cost of the entire program for 363 pts was only $25,000. This translated to a 2-year savings of nearly $1 million, and $39 in savings for each $1 invested.

Source name:

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Resource link:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.03.077 [3]

Taxonomy:

Cardiac - Other [4]

Subspecialty(ies):

Cardiac [5]

Author(s):

John P Nabagiez, Masood A Shariff, William J Molloy, Seleshi Demissie, Joseph T McGinn Jr.

Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference:

Cardiac [6]