3. Eliminating avoidable days
In the same article, the authors wrote that the Medicare beneficiaries who were working with the case managers in collaboration with NovaHealth had 50 percent fewer hospital days per 1,000 patients and 45 percent fewer admissions. The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has led hospitals and health systems to develop new ways to foster patient-centered, accountable care, the authors wrote. One way to do so is to implement models of care built on care management and coordination, they added.