Nursing Home Adherence: A Case Study

The cost of nonadherence is estimated to cost the US healthcare system $100 to $300 billion a year (Phrma, 2015). This figure includes the cost of hospitalization, premature death and nursing home admission. Adding an additional $2,000 to the annual per patient cost, 40% of the nursing homes admission has been associated with non-adherence (Phrma, 2015). The consequences of nonadherence are significant, they include transplant failure, acute rejection, decrease quality of life, which all leads to an increase in health care cost and potential longer term hospitalization (Tanriover, Stone, Mohan, et al, 2013). Nonadherence cause approximately 13%-35% of the transplant loss. Kidney recipients who do not adhere to their treatment regimen die at
rate four time greater than recipients who are compliant.