Remaking Chronic Care in the Age of Health Care Reform: Changes for Lower Cost, Higher Quality Treatment

2012

Arnold Birenbaum
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This book is 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. The author argues that the current system is unsustainable, documents efforts that have been made to promote better coordination of care through patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organization, and addresses the long-term chronic-care needs of children and adults with disabilities. Specifically, the "Remaking" 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 several prevelent conditions, but also makes it clear that incentives have to be realigned if such improved primary care is to become a reality

Chronic, Care, Health, Care , Reform

Book

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Policymakers, Students

Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

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