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May 08, 2012 at 09:50 AM
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMII) is awarding $3.2 million in research funding to an Alzheimer’s and dementia care project at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
The UCLA researchers are getting the grant to expand a program that will try to provide extra care coordination for about 1,000 Medicare and Medicaid plan enrollees who have Alzheimer’s disease or other conditions that cause dementia.
The researchers are hoping the program will save about $6.9 million over 3 years, or about $2,300 per patient per year.
The researchers will start by hiring 10 nurse practitioners and training them to be dementia care managers.
