Health Care Cost Reengineering Rep. 1998 Jun;3(6):87-90.
Capitated provider saves more than $100,000 in first year of disease management program for cancer care: Although the actual patient numbers are low, cancer care consumes a disproportionate amount of resources. That's why this New Hampshire-based multispecialty group practice and affiliated hospital targeted cancer cases for disease management. Here are the details on how this aggressive program works, along with key areas of cancer care that reap the greatest cost efficiencies and some interesting costs data.
在癌症护理疾病管理项目的第一年,按人头付费的医疗服务提供者节省了超过10万美元:尽管实际患者数量较少,但癌症护理消耗的资源却不成比例。这就是为什么这个位于新罕布什尔州的多专科医疗集团和附属医院将癌症病例作为疾病管理的目标。以下是这个积极的项目如何运作的详细信息,以及癌症护理中实现最大成本效益的关键领域和一些有趣的成本数据。