Coordinated Health Care

In a recent article released by the Wall Street Journal’s Health Blog, it was noted that a study in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) found that the newer theory of “coordinating care” just doesn’t save patients money. What is coordinating care? The WSJ article describes it this way: “Get a nurse or another health professional to keep track of treatments and doctor visits for patients with complex, chronic diseases such as diabetes or heart disease. The coordinator should communicate with doctors and help the patients keep on top of things like their drug regimens. Then the patients won’t end up with as many costly hospitalizations.”

Now that we know coordinating of care doesn’t reduce health care and insurance costs, are there other things that we should be taking into consideration here? Read on to see what this study looked at and what implications it has.

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