Article: House Calls for Homebound Patients: Has Their Time Come?
Medscape has published an article, "House Calls for Homebound Patients: Has Their Time Come?"
The article notes that physician home visits are a growing trend. Interviewed, among others, is Thomas Cornwell, MD, a family physician and founder of Northwestern Medicine HomeCare Physicians and of the Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI), "today, home visits are made to the most medically complex and costly patients." Dr. Cornwell "estimates that he has made 32,000 home visits in the past two decades...averaging 9 visits per day - with the help of a medical assistant who drives from home to home while Cornwell charts in the passenger seat."
The article makes the point that, "the real opportunity for [home visit] growth lies in the system's gradual evolution to value-based care and risk-sharing models."
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