Figure 27. Improving Care Coordination andReducing Cost

• Importance of improving

transitions in care, doctor to

doctor, and post-hospital

• Follow-up care following hospital

discharge could reduce

rehospitalization

• High cost care management could

reduce errors and lower costs

• Will require restructuring Medicare

benefits and incentives

Dollars

$9,618

$6,152

$8,809

$4,977

$1,175$809$0

$2,000

$4,000

$6,000

$8,000

$10,000

$12,000

Control Intervention

V is its Inpatient Care

Source: M.D. Naylor, Making the Bridge from Hospital to Home, The Commonwealth Fund, Fall 2003.

Effect of Advanced Practice Nurse Care on Congestive Heart Failure Patients’ Average Per Capita Expenditures