TY - JOUR
KW - Cost of Health Care
KW - Elderly
KW - Health Spending
KW - Long-Term Care
AU - D. D. French
AU - M. A. LaMantia
AU - L. R. Livin
AU - D. Herceg
AU - C. A. Alder
AU - M. A. Boustani
A1 - 
AB - Over the past two decades the collaborative care model within primary care has proved to be effective in improving care quality, efficiency, and outcomes for older adults suffering from dementia and depression. In collaboration with community partners, scientists from Indiana University have implemented this model at the Healthy Aging Brain Center (HABC), a memory care clinic that is part of Eskenazi Health, an integrated safety-net health care system in Indianapolis, Indiana. The HABC generates an annual net cost savings of up to $2,856 per patient, which adds up to millions of dollars for Eskenazi Health's patients. This article demonstrates the financial sustainability of the care processes implemented in the HABC, as well as the possibility that payers and providers could share savings from the use of the HABC model. If it were implemented nationwide, annual cost savings could be in the billions of dollars.
BT - Health affairs (Project Hope)
C5 - Financing & Sustainability
CP - 4
CY - United States
DO - 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.1221
IS - 4
JF - Health affairs (Project Hope)
N2 - Over the past two decades the collaborative care model within primary care has proved to be effective in improving care quality, efficiency, and outcomes for older adults suffering from dementia and depression. In collaboration with community partners, scientists from Indiana University have implemented this model at the Healthy Aging Brain Center (HABC), a memory care clinic that is part of Eskenazi Health, an integrated safety-net health care system in Indianapolis, Indiana. The HABC generates an annual net cost savings of up to $2,856 per patient, which adds up to millions of dollars for Eskenazi Health's patients. This article demonstrates the financial sustainability of the care processes implemented in the HABC, as well as the possibility that payers and providers could share savings from the use of the HABC model. If it were implemented nationwide, annual cost savings could be in the billions of dollars.
PP - United States
PY - 2014
SN - 1544-5208; 0278-2715
SP - 613
EP - 618
EP - 
T1 - Healthy aging brain center improved care coordination and produced net savings
T2 - Health affairs (Project Hope)
TI - Healthy aging brain center improved care coordination and produced net savings
U1 - Financing & Sustainability
U2 - 24711322
U3 - 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.1221
VL - 33
VO - 1544-5208; 0278-2715
Y1 - 2014
ER -