title: Firing blanks. CBO says experiments fail to cut Medicare spending; providers not ready to give up.
abstract: The results are in, and it's bad news for saving money in care coordination and disease management, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which found demonstration projects in those areas didn't save Medicare money. Randy Brown, left, of Mathematica Policy Research, says it's not surprising since it's hard to save money on a very sick population with chronic problems.
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zigmond
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D010346:Patient Care Management / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States