title: Don't overlook disease management programs for low-incidence, high-cost diseases to improve your bottom line.
abstract: Comprehensive coordinated care management for low-incident, high-cost diseases, like chronic renal failure, can provide a great opportunity for health plans to add immediate and significant profit to their bottom line. The resultant benefits of improved operations, improved clinical outcomes and increased patient satisfaction add further incentive for health plans to take action to implement outsourced disease management for this condition.
authors.affiliation: RMS Disease Management Inc, McGaw Park, IL, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bruce
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dickmeyer
mesh_terms: D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000191:economics; D017046:Cost Savings; D017281:Cost of Illness; D019468:Disease Management; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000191:economics*; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare; D020416:Outsourced Services / Q000191:economics*; D013675:Technology, High-Cost; D014481:United States