Fee-for-service billing codes can serve as bridges for organizations to build care management capabilities and transition from volume- to value-based payment and care delivery. Transitional care ...

New legislation aims to eliminate the cost-sharing requirement for Medicare beneficiaries to get chronic care management services and reimburse providers for 100% of the payment. The legislation, ...

Chronic care management (CCM) refers to a Medicare care plan that can help direct a person’s healthcare. It lists information about the individual’s health and also explains the care they require.

Because of its often slowly progressive nature, dementia is often included among chronic disease management programs. Yet, for many reasons, its management demands different approaches. With the rise ...

Medicaid beneficiaries at risk of losing coverage due to work requirements are often managing multiple chronic conditions, especially older enrollees, according to research published Wednesday in JAMA ...

Today, more than half of the U.S. population lives with at least one chronic condition, and nearly 30% have multiple chronic conditions. These chronic conditions—which include heart disease, ...

Mental health is often viewed as its own category when thinking about patient care; however, mental health and physical health are intricately linked. And as a practicing endocrinologist, I see ...

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 ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...