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When the leadership team at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield discussed its future medical management strategy in 2001, the team considered that proactive case management would be a major component.
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Extensive outcomes studies to document the value of disease management are necessary to convince the health care industry that disease management is a viable solution to gaps in health care and poor outcomes for people with chronic diseases, asserts Derek Newell, vice president of outcomes measurement and product manager for LifeMasters Supported Self Care, an Irvine, CA-based disease management company.
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Americas aging population and increasingly complex health care system have given rise to a relatively new field geriatric case management.
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Case managers today work in a broader range of venues than ever before. Professionals from a variety of backgrounds are finding that they, too, are practicing in the case management field.
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Frontline access management staff at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston face excruciating tasks on a daily basis.
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Hospitals struggling to survive while absorbing an increasing amount of uncompensated health care are welcoming recent changes to federal patient-dumping legislation that clarify and limit the instances in which hospitals are required to provide care regardless of a patients ability to pay.
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Concerned that their loved ones mental capacities may not be able to keep up with their physical maturity, parents and guardians of adults and adolescents with mental retardation sometimes seek to have these people undergo medical sterilization procedures to prevent what they perceive as the potential burden of unanticipated parenthood.
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Ask many physicians about informed consent and often youll find they consider it a concept clear in ethics texts, but murky in practice.
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