Health Payer Intelligence December 12, 2017
Thomas Beaton

Payers can address chronic disease prevention with the use of beneficiary health data, population management tactics, and community program investments.

Payers have an opportunity to improve chronic disease prevention and limit chronic disease spending by addressing the both medical and non-medical factors of chronic conditions. Payers can determine their chronic disease costs, and lower those costs, with efforts that identify chronic disease prevalence within beneficiary populations.

Payers are especially primed to support and develop chronic disease management because they already use tactics that fall in line with the CDC’s four domains of chronic disease prevention.

The domains for successfully managing chronic disease include surveillance of at risk patients, the development of systems that address environmental access to care, supporting patient...

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