Managed Care
Data on managed care reported by G. Picariello and co-researchers
Published in Hospital Law Weekly, January 22nd, 2009
"We evaluated the impact of HIP, Health Plan of New York's geriatric case management (GCM) program, which is offered to Medicare Advantage members at high risk for high health care costs and utilization. The study design was a comparison of health plan costs for program participants and nonparticipants eligible for the program, controlling for variables predictive of high health care costs measured prior to program enrollment," investigators in the United States report.
"The GCM program's impact on health care cost was derived from regression models comparing the costs of 101 program participants without exposure to other disease management programs to 1585 eligible...
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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2009-01-22)
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