{"id":2927,"date":"2025-08-01T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/?page_id=2927"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:16:43","slug":"follow-up-after-emergency-department-visit-for-people-with-high-risk-multiple-chronic-conditions-fmc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/report-cards\/health-plans\/state-of-health-care-quality-report\/follow-up-after-emergency-department-visit-for-people-with-high-risk-multiple-chronic-conditions-fmc\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-Up After Emergency Department Visit for People With High-Risk Multiple Chronic Conditions (FMC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW255412975 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW255412975 BCX0\">The percentage of emergency department (ED) visits for persons 18 years of age and older who have multiple high-risk chronic conditions who had a follow-up service within 7 days of the ED visit.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW255412975 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW44314996 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44314996 BCX0\">The Medicare population includes a large number of individuals and older adults with multiple high-risk chronic conditions (MCC) who often receive care from multiple providers and settings and, as a result, are more likely to experience fragmented care and adverse health care outcomes, including an increased likelihood of ED visits <sup>(1, 2)<\/sup>. Medicare beneficiaries with MCCs require high levels of care coordination, particularly as the transition from the ED to the community. During these transitions, they often face communication lapses between ED and outpatient providers and inadequate patient, caregiver and provider understanding of diagnoses, medication and follow-up needs <sup>(3,4,5,6)<\/sup>. This poor care coordination results in an increased risk for medication errors, repeat ED visits, hospitalization, nursing home admission and death <sup>(7,8)<\/sup>. Medicare beneficiaries with MCCs not only experience poorer health outcomes, but also greater health care utilization (e.g., physician use, hospital and ED use, medication use) and costs (e.g., medication, out-of-pocket, total health care) <sup>(9)<\/sup>. Medicare beneficiaries with MCCs are some of the heaviest users of high-cost, preventable services such as those offered by the ED<sup>(10,11)<\/sup>. An estimated 75% of health care spending is on people with MCCs <sup>(12, 13)<\/sup>.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW44314996 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:180,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-teams=\"true\">Historical Results \u2013 National Averages<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of emergency department (ED) visits for persons 18 years of age and older who have multiple high-risk chronic conditions who had a follow-up service within 7 days of the ED visit.\u00a0 Why It Matters The Medicare population includes a large number of individuals and older adults with multiple high-risk chronic conditions (MCC) who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":733,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2927","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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