The Hospital Finance Podcast

The Hospital Finance Podcast


Looking at the effectiveness of healthcare hotspotting

February 19, 2020

In this episode, we are joined by Joseph Doyle, Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, to discuss the results of their study on healthcare hotspotting programs targeting superutilizers. Highlights of this episode include: Background on MIT’s study of a hotspotting program that has received national attention as a promising superutilizer intervention. How data for the study was collected and how superutilizers were identified. What were the readmission rates for patients in the intervention and control groups? What do the results of this study mean for health care providers going forward? And more…