Case Management Advisor articles from January 2005

Case Management Advisor archives from January 2005

Medicare disease management program reduces amputations and spending: face-to-face sessions are a cornerstone of program's success.
January 1, 2005... An intensive face-to-face care management program for severely ill Medicare patients with advanced congestive heart failure and/or complex diabetes has paid off for XLHealth, a Baltimore-based disease management firm. The company has reduced...

Program offers preventive health, chronic care: quality indicators, patient satisfaction are tracked.
January 1, 2005... As part of its efforts to promote preventive care and appropriate management of chronic diseases, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has begun the Recognizing Physician Excellence (RPE) program, which will reward physicians based on several...

CMs, disease managers should collaborate: work together to develop health strategies.(Guest Column)
January 1, 2005... As employers look at ways to deal with escalating health care costs, case managers likely will find themselves playing key roles. They will not, however, be the only ones in the game. Case managers complement disease managers as the two roles...

Tailor diabetes education to specific ethnic groups: impact risks with same message in different forms.
January 1, 2005... It is a well-known fact in the health care community that there are diabetes disparities among ethnic groups. Diabetes is a problem throughout the United States. An estimated 18 million people suffer from the chronic disease, and people of...

Hands off or on when it comes to patient care? Offering comfort can be thwarted by culture.
January 1, 2005... For as long as humans have been taking care of other humans who are sick or hurt, the rendering of solace and physical comfort has been the core from which all other types of aid have grown. But a nurse and ethicist in California says that...

Opportunistic infections remain a key problem: comorbid conditions growing in importance.
January 1, 2005... Although the most common reasons for hospitalization among HIV patients in six hospitals nationwide are for comorbidities, there remains a significant rate of hospitalization for opportunistic infections (OIs), a new study says. ...

Practice strategies don't affect diabetes care.
January 1, 2005... A Harvard Medical School study has found that current practice management strategies and financial arrangements have a limited impact on the quality of care for patients with diabetes. Led by Nancy L. Keating, MD, researchers reviewed medical...

CBO: jury still out on disease management.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Insufficient evidence exists to prove that disease management programs can lower overall health care costs, concluded the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in an Oct. 13, 2004, press release. The CBO based its analysis, conducted at the...

CE questions.
January 1, 2005... 1. Paul Serini, executive vice president of XLHealth, credits what type of intervention for the company's success in dramatically reducing amputations and health care costs for patients with advanced congestive heart failure and/or complex...