Aurora, Colorado’s Bridges to Care Program Uses House Calls And ‘HotSpotting’ To Cut Costs

Circle Connections: New Products & Services Bridges to Care is an experiment that's part of the trend in health care called "hotspotting." Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, a family physician working in one of the poorest communities in the U.S., Camden, N.J., pioneered the concept when he found that one percent of people there were racking up 30 percent of health costs. Brenner looked for "hotspots" or outliers in vast amounts of data – the sickest people who were costing the most. Then he did the unthinkable. Instead of trying to cut off these complex patients, Brenner gave them more . . .