title: Questionnaire helps keep Medicare patients healthy.
abstract: An Illinois PHO association targets ill capitated Medicare enrollees early to prevent illnesses from getting worse and resulting in a high-cost medical episode. The health system does this by mailing a health status questionnaire to each new enrollee and assigning case managers to those in the poorest health.
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D002204:Capitation Fee; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006278:Medicare / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States