Sep 12, 2013: Transitional care reduces readmissions, improves patient outcomes, saves money, and engages patients to become an active partner in their own care plan. With every new study, the statistics and other objective evidence are lining up behind the common sense.

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Research on Medicaid patients in North Carolina validates with data what we've known anecdotally for some time: Transitional care works, both to improve population health, and to save money.