A Rand Corporation report once again demonstrates how a relatively small proportion of patients, typically with multiple chronic diseases, are responsible for much of total health spending.
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The Commonwealth Fund issues a brief on designing a good health delivery system for complex, high-cost patients.
Research in Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology compares various care management delivery strategies.
A Centers for Disease Control brief examines geographic variation in the number of and spending on Medicare beneficiaries with six or more chronic conditions.
A study in Population Health Management finds that a telephone-based chronic disease management program had significant net savings.
From my home state of Minnesota comes a report revealing the shocking fact that people with chronic conditions have high health spending, doh!!
Our Congress is working together in harmony to address improvements in the management of chronic illnesses.
A Commonwealth Fund report analyzes the efficacy of various initiatives to better manage care for high-cost patients.
Research sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund and published in Health Affairs finds that primary care physicians around the world struggle with care management for patients with multiple chronic conditions.
The National Governor’s Association may seem like an odd place to get health information but it issues an interesting report on state efforts to manage complex patients.
Research carried in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds a modest benefit from a text message-based intervention to help manage risk factors related to heart disease.
Two studies in Health Affairs find that chronic disease prevalence is probably higher than assumed and that the reform law’s insurance expansion may lead to more diagnosis of these diseases.
A brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality looks at trends in health care spending for the elderly.
In another example of guideline overreach, the New England Journal of Medicine carries studies suggesting that keeping dietary salt levels too low has adverse health effects.
A report from the Pew Research Center focuses on those Americans living with chronic disease, uncovering information about how they use the internet.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.