Variations in Costs of a Collaborative Care Model for Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Care coordination programs can improve patient outcomes and decrease healthcare expenditures; however, implementation costs are poorly understood. We evaluate the direct costs of implementing a collaborative dementia care program.

Design

We applied a micro-costing analysis to calculate operational costs per-participant-month between March 2015 and May 2017.

Setting

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).

Participants

Participants diagnosed with dementia, enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, 45 years of age or older, residents of California, Nebraska or Iowa, and having a caregiver. The sample was 272 (UCSF) and 192 (UNMC) participants.

Intervention

A collaborative dementia care prog

SUBMITTER: Rosa TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6898731 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature