“Potentially Preventable Medicare Spending High in Frail Elderly,” by Diana Phillips, Medscape

“In an analysis of Medicare beneficiaries in the top 10% of individual spending in 2012, adults aged 65 years or older with two or more conditions, which is considered to indicate frailty, accounted for nearly 44% of spending deemed potentially preventable despite making up only 4% of the population sample, researchers found. Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH, from the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues report their findings in an article published online October 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

The onslaught approaches.

Potentially Preventable Medicare Spending High in Frail Elderly

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