So just for a specific example, if you can use your Medicare dollar to get a personal attendant for a patient who is pre-nursing home, if you will, then that can save money on the Medicaid side, which would be a much greater expense, by using the Medicare dollar to pay for a service that would not be available under Medicaid.
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