Get Updates
Reforming Health Care: Fourth Brief in New Series Reviews the Evidence on Disease Management
Media Advisory: May 17, 2010
Contact: Amy Berridge, (609) 945-3378
Disease management programs seek to control health care costs by focusing on two major drivers: high-cost chronic illness and inpatient hospitalizations for acute conditions. The fourth brief in a new series from Mathematica looks at the research evidence on the effectiveness of disease management programs and the role of disease management in health care reform.
The process of health care reform will require ongoing, creative thinking and vigorous dialogue among all stakeholders on important issues. Mathematica’s new series is intended to help policymakers understand the research base for the critical choices they will make in implementing the federal health reform law.
Forthcoming topics will include disease management, financial incentives, medical homes, and other topics. To access all the titles in this series, click here.
Disease Management: Does It Work?
Jill Bernstein, Deborah Chollet, and G. Gregory Peterson
About Mathematica: Mathematica Policy Research, a nonpartisan research firm, provides a full range of research and data collection services, including program evaluation and policy research, survey design and data collection, research assessment and interpretation, and program performance/data management, to improve public well-being. Its clients include federal and state governments, foundations, and private-sector and international organizations. The employee-owned company, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Ann Arbor, Mich., Cambridge, Mass., Chicago, Ill., Oakland, Calif., and Washington, D.C., has conducted some of the most important studies of health care, international, disability, education, family support, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs.