Remaking chronic care in the age of health care reform : changes for lower cost, higher quality treatment
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Remaking chronic care in the age of health care reform : changes for lower cost, higher quality treatment
Praeger, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This revealing book tackles the daunting problem of increasing chronic illness in America, offering fresh ideas for the ways in which the challenge can be successfully managed.
Remaking Chronic Care in the Age of Health Care Reform: Changes for Lower Cost, Higher Quality Treatment is nothing less than a blueprint for a new mode of chronic care. It depicts a current system in which there is little financial incentive to furnish coordinated services via appropriate primary care and few penalties for failure to deliver such care. Arguing that the current system is unsustainable, the book documents efforts that have been made to promote better coordination of care through patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations.
Specifically, the book focuses on linking the ongoing innovations in health care practices with the supports for scaling up innovations found in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It shows how expanding and improving primary care as the vehicle for care coordination will reduce costs for those with conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, or other longstanding disorders, but also makes it clear that incentives have to be realigned if such improved primary care is to become a reality.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chronic Care: An Introduction
1 Demographic Destinies
2 Chronic Illness in America Today
3 How Well Does U.S. Medicine Deal with Chronic Illness?
4 The Patient-Centered Medical Home
5 Disability and Chronic Illness
6 The Chronic Care Model: Designed to Avoid the Avoidable
7 Financing Chronic Care
8 The Primary Care and Medical Home Shortfall: A Wakeup Call for an Aging Society
9 Redesigning Health Care Delivery for the Age of Chronic Care
10 The Reach of the 2010 Affordable Care Act: Implications for Chronic Care
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Index
by "Nielsen BookData"