Hospitals Use House Calls To Cut Costs, Admissions

Hospitals Try House Calls To Cut Costs, Admissions by Laura Landro.  The Wall Street Journal. February 4, 2013.

Among the most important reasons that the house calls is making a comeback is that Medicare last October began to withholding payments to hospitals with higher-than-predicted readmissions rates.  Johns Hopkins has established the Hospital At Home program to move many hospital services to the home where possible.