A chronic condition is a physical or mental health condition that lasts more than one year and causes functional restrictions or requires ongoing monitoring or treatment. Chronic diseases are among ...

Although primary care clinics were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, a study by Minnesota researchers showed that care management processes for chronic disease care in the primary care setting ...

A long and deeply-reported feature story in The Washington Post on Tuesday put a spotlight on the stark effect that an epidemic of chronic illness is taking on too many millions of Americans. "Forty ...

A session led by Irina Koyfman, DNP, NP-C, RN, at the National Association of Managed Care Physicians (NAMCP) Spring Managed Care Forum 2023 detailed the potential of chronic care management billing ...

The approach for SDOH is also based on patient health data and uses text-based workflows, but it takes into account a broader range of attributes such as whether patients have a primary care physician ...

Chronic care is health care that addresses long-term or preexisting illnesses. Simply put, those are diseases or conditions that last a year or more and require ongoing medical care or limit the ...

At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% ...

Stakeholders from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey discuss new ways to address management gaps for chronic behavioral health conditions, including a new integrated care model that puts ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of 2012, 49.8% of all US adults (117 million people) have one or more chronic diseases. Taking patients’ family and friends into account ...

If there’s one word that sums up the Medicare Advantage (MA) revolution over the past decade, it’s “consumerism.” The quest to put the patient in the center of their own care has influenced everything ...

Concierge primary care provider One Medical is doubling down on chronic condition management with the launch of a new program to all members and employers. One Medical, which went public early last ...