tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 11

INDUSTRY NOTES: Demonstration Project Offers New Outlook For Disease Management

Plus:  Home health spending increase spell more bad news for HHAs.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may finally be catching on to the benefits of disease management. More than 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries are participating in Medicare Health Support, the demonstration project offering DM to chronically ill patients.Eight programs in eight states and the District of Columbia offer personalized care plans, biometric monitoring devices for weight, blood pressure and pulse, 24-hour telephonic nurse access and group education and support sessions, CMS notes in a release.About 14 percent of Medicare beneficiaries have congestive heart failure, but...

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