Saving Dollars, Saving Lives: The Importance of Prevention in Curing Medicare : Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, Washington, DC, June 30, 2005, Volume 4 |
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... patients suf- fering from multiple chronic diseases . Studies show that Medicare spends 2 out of every 3 dollars on people with five or more chronic conditions , such as diabetes , emphysema , heart disease , arthritis , or osteoporosis ...
... patients suf- fering from multiple chronic diseases . Studies show that Medicare spends 2 out of every 3 dollars on people with five or more chronic conditions , such as diabetes , emphysema , heart disease , arthritis , or osteoporosis ...
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... patients more efficiently . Our ability to prevent and affordable treat chronic disease is key to our ability to contain the anticipated growth in Medicare spending . So I thank all of our witnesses for coming today to discuss this ...
... patients more efficiently . Our ability to prevent and affordable treat chronic disease is key to our ability to contain the anticipated growth in Medicare spending . So I thank all of our witnesses for coming today to discuss this ...
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... patient's experi- ence and comparing that to a comparable patient without the dis- ease management . That is a high scientific standard . None of the work that we have examined to date meets exactly that standard and at each point ...
... patient's experi- ence and comparing that to a comparable patient without the dis- ease management . That is a high scientific standard . None of the work that we have examined to date meets exactly that standard and at each point ...
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... patients with multiple chronic conditions and management of chronic illnesses , which makes all the difference in the world . My constituents see a difference when they go from visiting six or seven different health care providers to a ...
... patients with multiple chronic conditions and management of chronic illnesses , which makes all the difference in the world . My constituents see a difference when they go from visiting six or seven different health care providers to a ...
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... patients accounted for only 17.4 per- cent of spending by all ESRD patients in 2001 ; in com- parison , the most expensive 5 percent of all Medicare FFS beneficiaries accounted for 43 percent of spending by all Medicare beneficiaries ...
... patients accounted for only 17.4 per- cent of spending by all ESRD patients in 2001 ; in com- parison , the most expensive 5 percent of all Medicare FFS beneficiaries accounted for 43 percent of spending by all Medicare beneficiaries ...
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Page 36 - Be comfort to my age ! Here is the gold ; All this I give you. Let me be your servant : Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty ; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly : let me go with you ; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 37 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 37 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side'; His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound : Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
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Page 61 - Yet there remains a dearth of clinical programs with the infrastructure required to provide the full complement of services needed by people with heart disease, diabetes, asthma, and other common chronic conditions (Wagner et al., 1996).
Page 81 - In 1996 the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discussed with the National Academies...
Page 17 - Technology for his counsel during the research and for reviewing the draft of the report. (The assistance of external reviewers implies no responsibility for the final product, which rests solely with CBO.) V.
Page 96 - Hospital diagnoses, Medicare charges, and nursing home admissions in the year when older persons become severely disabled.
Page 93 - This hearing is adjourned. [Whereupon, at 11:35 am, the committee was adjourned...