Overview: Disease Management
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Improving health care quality and reduc ing costs are attractive selling points for dis ease management (DM) programs. DM is widely used by insurers and employers, with revenues approaching $2 billion a year (Mattke, Seid, and Ma, 2007). The appeal of DM has spread beyond the pri vate sector and is increasingly being con sidered, if not adopted, by public payers. The growing chronic disease burden, expanding emphasis on the importance of lifestyle related conditions such as obesity, and escalating heath care costs present challenges that DM purports to address. There are a wide array of DM programs and specific intervention services, some integrated into care delivery settings and others primarily telephonic. Some DM pro grams’ focus is limited to disease specific support. Others take a broader, holistic, care management approach. This has enhanced appeal when managing populations with multiple comorbidities. A more recent focus for the industry is pop ulation health, extending the diseasespe cific and multiple conditions approaches to incorporate wellness management of entire populations, even those without chronic conditions. There is no single definition of DM’s in terventions. Interventions are not just program specific, but person specific and also often vary with each contact. Pro grams may seek to improve adherence to evidence based prevention and treatment guidelines, working with providers and/ or with patients to improve care. Other general strategies in DM include patient education aimed at improving self care and adherence to treatment plans, and to communicate with health care provid ers. Some programs include additional supports such as coordinating or provid ing trans porta tion, medication, or social support services. Similarly, target populations can vary dramatically. Questions remain as to what criteria identify the optimal population to benefit from DM. Is it the highest cost group, a specific set of diagnoses, a particu lar utilization pattern, or some combination of these factors? Are there other subpopu lations where the benefit is minimal or nonexistent that should be excluded? DM providers working with Medicare popula tions have remarked on the challenges of multiple comorbidities, especially cogni tive impairment, and general frailty of the population. That care is delivered by many different providers for conditions that are often longstanding is often in contrast to younger, healthier populations. Overlaying this are the added complexities of other social service needs, low literacy levels, and financial issues. The structure of the public sector pro grams often differs as well. Issues such as the timeliness of claims or other utili zation data and the inability for realtime notification of hospital admission may require altering the DM approach. The monthly management fees paid in the Medicare demonstrations reported in Overview: Disease Management
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 30 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008