Can Health Promotion Programs Really Save Medicare Dollars?
The answer to that question is yes, according to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services-sponsored study published recently in the journal Clinical Interventions in Aging (Dove Medical Press). Researchers from Thomson Healthcare and Cornell University led the research project, which examined the relevant scientific literature and concluded that well-designed health promotion initiatives can deliver a positive return-on-investment to the Medicare program, according to a press release issue by Thompson Health and picked up by the Administration on Aging’s latest e-newsletter. From the Thompson Health release: “Medicare is confronting rising healthcare costs, an aging population, and the high prevalence of chronic disease among the elderly. It needs innovative approaches to manage an urgent situation,” said lead author Ron Z. Goetzel, Ph.D., a vice president at Thomson Healthcare and director of the Institute for Health Productivity Studies at Cornell University. “This study suggests
