A study examined coordinated care for the most expensive patients
Article: <i>These individuals, frequently struggling with addiction or homelessness, have extremely complicated medical conditions. By finding them and connecting them to the right doctors and social services, dozens of costly hospital stays could be avoided. The idea has been adopted in numerous communities around the country.</i><p>So, patients who just happen to be broken in the way this country now commonly breaks people, wind-up being extremely costly to the medical system, which actually is going to ultimately add these bills to everyone&#x27;s costs.<p>One way to deal with this is being very clever in how you treat these people. But another idea would be to not break these people in the first place. That would require some re-evaluation of where this country is going, of course.