title: In-house diabetes program delivers on a 'shoestring' budget.
abstract: Companion HealthCare, a Columbia, SC-based subsidiary of BlueCross BlueShield of SC, has been able to achieve impressive results by building its own in-house DM programs. Funded "on a shoestring,"these programs have proven far less expensive to implement than vendored models while still producing impressive clinical returns.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D003628:Database Management Systems; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D013022:South Carolina; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires