Get Up And Do Something: Helping patients help themselves saves money, report shows

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Helping patients help themselves saves money, report shows Feb 7th 2013, 11:29 Dr. Andrea Anderson would cringe whenever she saw the patient's name come up on her list for the day. He had heart disease, a pacemaker, and other conditions, but never seemed to understand what he needed to do to take care of himself. "I honestly felt I wasn't able to help him," said Anderson, medical director of the Upper Cardozo Health Center in Washington, D.C. "He was constantly going to the emergency room." Patients like this one, who don't take part in their own medical care and don't know how to, end up costing the U.S. medical system big time. A report out Monday in the journal Health Affairs shows such patients cost between 8 percent and 21 percent more than patients who are actively engaged in their health care. Getting these patients more involved is absolutely essential to cutting the soaring medical costs in the United States, experts say.

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