Study: Medical home plan cuts hospital admissions by 20 percent

A study published in Health Affairs found that a Pennsylvania medical home program cut hospital admissions by 20 percent and cost by 7 percent (Source: “Medical 'home' plan cut hospital admissions: study,” Reuters, Sept. 10, 2008).

"This is the direction in which we need to move our fragmented, broken health care system," said Commonwealth Fund President Karen Davis, who helped write the report and is a board member of Geisinger Health System, the privately held organization behind the medical home plan. The medical home program was made available to about 2.5 million patients at Geisinger clinics and hospitals in throughout Pennsylvania.