Bay Area groups take part in Medicare test program

Beginning in January, there will be a test run of a new Medicare system.  There will be 17,000 people in San Fransisco taking part in this experiment which will hopefully uncover a cheaper, more efficient way to give coverage.  This plan hopes to increase the hospitals' follow up on discharged patients, thus reducing the amount of patients that need to be readmitted.

Below is Richard Fish, CEO of Brown & Toland, who was interviewed for this article and backs this new model.