Care Ecosystem Collaborative Model and Health Care Costs in Medicare Beneficiaries With Dementia: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Collaborative dementia care programs are effective in addressing the needs of patients with dementia and their caregivers. However, attempts to consider effects on health care spending have been limited, leaving a critical gap in the conversation around value-based dementia care.

Objective

To determine the effect of participation in collaborative dementia care on total Medicare reimbursement costs compared with usual care.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a prespecified secondary analysis of the Care Ecosystem trial, a 12-month, single-blind, parallel-group randomized clinical trial conducted from March 2015 to March 2018 at 2 academic medical centers in California and Nebraska. Participants were patients with dementia who were living in the commu

SUBMITTER: Guterman EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10507595 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature