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We are proud to share with you the news of a new study that will be among the first to examine the impact of poor care coordination on the quality and cost of health care in America. To be undertaken by RAND Health and supported by a $250,000 grant from the Aetna Foundation, the work aims to provide data on avoidable and redundant medical care and offer strategies to improve patient outcomes. This important research will analyze Medicare claims data for patients suffering from three chronic diseases – diabetes, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – to uncover patterns of health care treatments that are more likely to occur when patient care is poorly coordinated, such as duplicated diagnostic testing, emergency room visits and avoidable hospitalizations. Calculating the Medicare payments for these potentially avoidable treatments – as well as measuring the variance between patients of different races and ethnicities — will be included in the study. RAND Health's methodology and technological advancements will help provide a better understanding of the impact that poor patient care coordination has on patients' health and health care costs. We look forward to sharing the study's results with you when they are published. Yours,
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