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Blue Cross completes a study of in-home nursing, showing cost-effectiveness.

Date: 1957

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Insurance providers frequently fund research on the cost-effectiveness of covering in-home nursing costs for policyholders who have recently been discharged from hospitals.

As a result of this study, Blue Cross requests that insurance law be amended to authorize nursing services as covered expenses in and out of the hospital.