The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation (AHHQI) commissioned Dobson|DaVanzo & Associates to study how the Medicare home health benefit can better meet beneficiary needs and improve the quality and efficiency of care provided within the U.S. health care system. The first two Working Papers of the Clinically Appropriate and Cost-Effective Placement Project (CACEP), based on this research, reveal that when home health care is used as the first clinically appropriate setting for post-acute care, Medicare spends less per patient on average.

For highlights of this study, click here. For a full report, click this link.