tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 32

Physician Notes: Disease Management Comes to Medicare in a Big Way

Program will contract with three organizations to improve chronic diabetes and heart disease care  Think Medicare doesn't do enough to care for patients with long-term illnesses? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seems to agree. Even though Medicare reform legislation calling for more disease management hasn't passed yet, CMS announced it had chosen three organizations to take part in a pilot project to improve care for patients with chronic heart disease and/or diabetes.  The trio will recruit up to 30,000 Medicare beneficiaries in California, Arizona and parts of Louisiana and Texas. CMS will pay for...

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