Abstract
The United States faces a shortage of providers who care for homebound patients. About 5,000 primary care providers made 1.7 million home visits to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2013, accounting for 70 percent of all home-based medical visits. Nine percent of these providers performed 44 percent of visits. However, most homebound people live more than thirty miles from a high-volume provider.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1404-1409 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Health Affairs |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2016 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Policy