Abstract

The United States faces a shortage of providers who care for homebound patients. About 5,000 primary care providers made 1.7million home visits to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2013, accounting for 70percent of all home-based medical visits. Nine percent of these providers performed 44percent of visits. However, most homebound people live more than thirty miles from a high-volume provider.

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