Despite New Doubts, ‘Hotspotting’ Help For Heavy Health Care Users Marches On

January 25, 2020

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the hotspotting model are greatly exaggerated,” said Rutgers University professor Joel Cantor, director of the Center for State Health Policy, before the California results dropped. Cantor has worked closely with the coalition. “This is a single study, focusing mainly on one of many possible outcomes, in a single location.”

NPR, January 22, 2020

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