Setting the Record Straight: Chronic Care Management CAN be Successful

Randy Williams — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:58:45 +0000

Clearly, the need to reduce healthcare costs without affecting the quality of healthcare delivered is at the center of our country’s healthcare debate. However, a recent BusinessWeek article of February 4, 2010, by Chad Terhune and Arlene Weintraub, makes the mistake of lumping together all disease management programs and then goes on to cite examples in which particular programs have demonstrated no cost-savings nor any apparent increase in the health of patients.

That is not, however, true of all programs that aim to manage chronic disease and demonstrate reduced costs.

As a cardiologist and CEO of Pharos Innovations, a company that focuses on managing chronic disease while demonstrating real reductions in avoidable hospital admissions and overall healthcare costs for Medicaid, Medicare, the VA, commercial health plans and provider systems, I think it’s important to set the record straight. There ARE well-proven ways to reduce costs AND keep patients healthier. (more…)

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Post tags: Care management, CMS, Disease management, Health plan, Medicaid, Medicare, Population Health, Remote Patient Monitoring

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Setting the Record Straight: Chronic Care Management CAN be Successful