Feds to study health benefits of screening and linking to social services [USAToday.com]

Samantha Sangenito 2/5/164:00 AM

The Obama administration is working to build evidence supporting increased federal and state spending on anti-violence, social service and other programs to improve life in poor neighborhoods and limit the growth in health care costs.

The move comes despite more limited reports done by outside groups and is designed to create a paper trail that makes the need for and efficacy of the programs for Medicare and Medicaid recipients indisputable by showing the cost savings.

[For more of this story, written by Jayne O'Donnell, go to http://www.usatoday.com/story/...spite-data/78651738/]

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