Room for improvement: tackling high-cost patients for high potential return.
Assuming that most DM programs do a decent job of managing the typical chronically ill patient, a California company decided to take on the atypical patient with a program that seeks out highly complex, at high-cost patients, and uses some non-traditional interventions to get these patients stabilized. In fact, pilot study results suggest developers may be on the right track with their "SWAT team" approach to care.
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