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- * After participating in the B2C program, patients experienced a 27.9% reduction in ED visits and a 114.0% increase in primary care visits over six months compared to those who didn’t participate.
- * For patients with mental health issues, the benefits were even greater, showing a 29.7% reduction in ED visits, a 30.0% decrease in hospitalizations, and a 123.2% increase in primary care visits compared to the control group.
Article Abstract
Many high utilizers of the emergency department (ED) have public insurance, especially through Medicaid. We evaluated how participation in Bridges to Care (B2C)-an ED-initiated, multidisciplinary, community-based program-affected subsequent ED use, hospital admissions, and primary care use among publicly insured or Medicaid-eligible high ED utilizers. During the six months after the B2C intervention was completed, participants had significantly fewer ED visits (a reduction of 27.9 percent) and significantly more primary care visits (an increase of 114.0 percent), compared to patients in the control group. In a subanalysis of patients with mental health comorbidities, we found that recipients of B2C services had significantly fewer ED visits (a reduction of 29.7 percent) and hospitalizations (30.0 percent), and significantly more primary care visits (an increase of 123.2 percent), again compared to patients in the control group. The B2C program reduced acute care use and increased the number of primary care visits among high ED utilizers, including those with mental health comorbidities.
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