The chronic care model versus disease management programs: a transaction cost analysis approach.
The present article applies transaction cost analysis as a framework for better understanding health plans' decisions to improve chronic illness management by using disease management programs versus redesigning care within physician practices.
Leeman
Jennifer
J
School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Mark
Barbara
B
D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000379:methods; D019468:Disease Management; D017050:Episode of Care; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D011216:Practice Management, Medical