The ‘catch and safe landing’ model: how specialized value-based care partners protect diagnosis-related group margins and decongest the ED

Health system operating margins are currently being held hostage by a systemic breakdown in post-acute care transitions. Across the country, hospitalists regularly delay discharging complex chronic patients out of fear that releasing them into a rural care desert will all but guarantee a 30-day readmission. Concurrently, emergency department physicians routinely admit borderline cardiometabolic patients to […] The post The ‘catch and safe landing’ model: how specialized value-b...