The Hot Spotters by Atul Gawande in New Yorker 1/24/11

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_gawande

The Hot Spotters 

Can we lower medical costs by giving the neediest patients better care. 

In Camden, New Jersey, one per cent of patients account for a third of the city’s medical costs.

Dr. Jeffrey Brenner has taken a comprehensive social approach to these issues and is lowering medical costs.  This is where we need to be.