How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?

Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly turn into $10,000 hospital visits.
America’s health care leaders have spent years trying to help this small but costly group of patients. In this episode, what have they learned?
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Episode Guests:
Jeff Brenner, MD, CEO, The Jewish Board
Arthur Brown, Client, Camden Coalition
Amy Finkelstein, PhD, Professor of Economics, MIT; Co-Scientific Director, J-PAL North America
Allison Hamblin, MSPH, President and CEO, Center for Health Care Strategies
Paula Lantz, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, University of Michigan
Larry Moore, Client, Camden Coalition
Kathleen Noonan, JD, President and CEO, Camden Coalition
Dottie Scott, Community Health Worker, Camden Coalition
Brian Thompson, Housing Coordinator, Camden Coalition
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs
Tradeoffs’ coverage of complex care is supported, in part, by Arnold Ventures.
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[@montanagal6958]

Upon arriving at work today, modern hospital complex, I saw papers left from an ER visit getting a methadone dose. This is where we are at folks!

[@FranzBieberkopf]

That's strange.
Here in the UK, A+E (our word for ED) would refer you to a drug clinic, or give you a phone number to do it yourself.
They would NEVER prescribe methadone.
I know this as I work in a drug clinic.

[@bevanbuckwheatshea5520]

These people are wasting time when there are genuine people who need medical attention.

[@bevanbuckwheatshea5520]

If parents are turning up at ER 100 times a year then the parents need to be referred to mental health.

[@bevanbuckwheatshea5520]

mean patients not parents