title: Tackling the burden of high-cost but uncommon chronic diseases.
abstract: Consider the high-cost impact of uncommon diseases. It's not cost-efficient for most health plans to develop disease management programs for uncommon chronic diseases such as lupus, seizure disorders, or MS, but that doesn't mean patients with these ailments don't need the support services a DM approach would provide. See how one DM vendor is successfully filling this gap in care.
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000191:economics / Q000628:therapy*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014481:United States