PATH ALONG Links ACO to Supportive Care

Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) are networks of physicians and other health care providers that work together to improve the quality of health care services and reduce Medicare cost for a defined patient population.  An Accountable Care Organizations stock in trade is care coordination.  Coordinating (making referrals to community service providers) care is the way the Accountable Care Organization exercises the service portion of their participation in the health care system.

The enacted health care law (The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010) under section 3022 and (Medicare Gain Sharing Program) section 1899 facilitates the option for health care providers to form Accountable Care Organizations.  Staff in Accountable Care Organizations coordinate supportive in home assistants (www.homecarepath.com) as a way to demonstrate taking responsibility  for the over all care of their Medicare beneficiaries.  This improves the quality of the recovery experience while preventing a re-hospitalization.

Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model collaborates with (ACO) Accountable Care Organizations to help save (CMS) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid dollars on four familiar streams of health care reimbursement.  Briefly the PATH ALONG model utilizes an advanced supportive service to reduce:

1. Reduce readmissions with recovery focused transitional assistants.

2. Reduce outpatient observational stays with rapid attach supportive assistant to accompany the senior home and maintain close contact with the medical team.

3. Reduce the repetitive emergency department visit loop with supportive assistant accompanying the senior home and delivering in home tasks until household is stable.

4. Reduce utilization of skilled medical providers to perform in home tasks a lower cost supportive care agency (www.homecarepath.com) is capable of doing.

The Accountable Care Organization receives from Medicare a share of the savings for participating in these simple strategies known to produce improved quality, fewer hospitalizations, and elimination of unnecessary expenses.  Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) benefit from the knowledge that PATH ALONG staff deliver a comprehensive service in line with their public funded mission.

 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life.  You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG App, seniors are saying they would not go in to the hospital without their App.

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