Face-to-face approach proves successful for HIV/AIDS program in Florida.
In the past several years, Florida legislators have pinned their hopes on a cadre of DM vendors to bring health care costs under control in that state's Medicaid program. While most of these highly publicized efforts have failed to meet the lawmakers' expectations, the state's HIV/AIDS program has reportedly saved the state as much as dollar 52 million dollars over five years. That program, developed by the Los Angeles, CA-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, relies on an in-person approach that developers contend is critical to bringing people into care.
D017046:Cost Savings; D019468:Disease Management; D005431:Florida; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations