Health Payer Intelligence December 12, 2019
Since early diagnoses strongly affect chronic disease management and healthcare spending, payers are buckling down with care coordination and precision medicine.
Payers are using coordinated care and precision medicine to make diagnoses more quickly and ensure a strong treatment plan for severe and chronic disease management.
Early detection of chronic and severe diseases can mean the difference between life and death. It can also mean the difference between affordable therapies and crippling medical bills.
A March 2018 study found that early cancer diagnosis could result in significant cost savings nationally. Researchers looked at 17 types of cancer and estimated that early detection could save, conservatively, $26 billion nationally.
Recognizing what is at stake, payers take different approaches to catching severe...