Disease Management and the Medical Home Model: Competing or Complementary?

Disease Management & Health Outcomes
Kuraitis, V., et al. - For the past decade, US physicians have failed to embrace disease management (DM) approaches offered by private DM companies and health plans. Until recently, physicians have not offered an alternative, systematic approach to caring for patients with chronic illnesses and conditions. While the medical home model is focused on primary care reform, its effect could be competitive to DM companies and others. The medical home model could affect the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars - money that over time might flow either to physicians or to private companies