So why not reimburse providers to help manage the illnesses of the chronically ill?
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The chronically ill should also be protected by a maximum annual fee payable by each person.
That means that we work with providers to say, how can you do a better job providing care to the chronically ill?
Decision Diagnostics distribute at-home diagnostics and testing products for the chronically ill.
Twenty percent of the sick account for 80 percent of the costs under Medicare -- typically the chronically ill, folks who have diabetes, for example.
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They argue that the definition of those eligible for help in dying in the Netherlands has been broadened to include the chronically ill and, most recently, the emotionally distressed.
So that as I said before, the chronically ill that account for 20 percent -- or the 20 percent of chronically ill patients that account for 80 percent of the costs, that they're getting better treatment.
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There was an obvious need to prevent the diseases that were causing such a huge burden: losing the children you love, caring for the chronically ill, and being unable to provide for your family due to illness.
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Others might involve smartphone apps for coaching the chronically ill in the management of their disease, new methods for getting advice from specialists, sophisticated systems for tracking outcomes and costs, and instant delivery to medical teams of up-to-date care protocols.
Another SIF intermediary, AIDS United, is using mobile engagement teams and telemedicine technology to reach the most chronically ill with specialized interventions that improve quality of life.
If the disabled and chronically ill continue to purchase private insurance, premium regulations will mean substantial premium increases for the healthy.
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Medicaid programs attempt, mostly through heroic individual efforts, to serve a desperately needy population of the poor, chronically ill, mentally unstable, and recklessly pregnant.
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Primary care physicians need to be dissected as well, handing off routine care such as treating earaches and performing camp physicals to retail clinics and assigning the care of chronically ill patients to disease management networks.
Thus states might need to continue to be responsible for figuring out the best way to address the needs of such chronically ill patients.
There is no doubt the U.S. has a long-run budget problem, and that we need to do a better job caring for the frail elderly who are chronically ill and need both medical care and long-term services.
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It is little surprise, therefore, that the world was optimistic when a chronically ill Yeltsin announced his resignation and appointed a young, ambitious successor on31 December 1999.
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The American College of Physicians has long recognized the importance of primary care practices providing case management to chronically ill patients.
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Asthmapolis, an organization that is just getting off the ground, connects we-ness to improving health for chronically ill patients by attaching a small GPS-enabled device to rescue inhalers.
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Chronically ill adults are defined as those with at least one of the following conditions: depression, type 2 diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
For the purposes of this report, caregivers are defined as adults currently caring for an aging or chronically ill family member.
Through the Independence at Home demonstration, the ACA will pay physicians and nurse practitioners to provide home-based primary care to targeted chronically ill individuals for a three -year period.
And further research should seek to "identify the age at which children grasp an understanding of disability and begin to form prejudice over disabled and chronically ill children".
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