Wednesday, March 30, 2005

State Medicaid Disease Management: Lessons Learned from Florida Report, in Adobe Acrobat format, from the Health Strategies Consultancy and Duke University. See also the related press release - "Private sector disease management programs designed to improve health outcomes and reduce health care spending need to be fundamentally changed to address the unique needs of low-income Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries, says new research released today by Health Strategies Consultancy and Duke University.

The findings, released today at a national Medicaid Conference sponsored by Health Strategies, were based on interviews with 27 key stakeholders who interacted with the Florida: A Healthy State program, including care managers, program administrators, medical directors, state officials, disease groups, and other community organizations..."