ANALYSIS: A new kind of house call

VA Independence at Home program may provide model for Medicare savings

By Wendell Potter
6:00 am, August 8, 2011

Dr. Bruce Kinosian still makes house calls, and he’s proud of it. In fact, he introduces himself as a physician who goes to see his patients in their homes rather than insisting that they come to see him at his office

He’s convinced that if more doctors did what he does, we could eliminate billions of dollars we currently spend in this country in an often-futile—and almost always incredibly expensive—effort to get people well.