CareFirst: Patient care program has saved $1.2B in health care costs

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield says its seven-year-old program encouraging primary care doctors to work more closely with people has saved regional patients an estimated $1.2 billion on their health care. Spearheaded by CEO Chet Burrell, the Baltimore-based insurer's patient-centered medical home (PCMH) program launched in 2011. The goal of the program was "bending the cost curve," Burrell said, or reducing the expected growth in costs of care across CareFirst's membership, as estimated by the…
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