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Comorbidity Costs and Care: Action Plans for Complex Healthcare Needs

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Summary: In this 30-page special report, two industry thought leaders share programs aimed at the co-morbid patient. Chad Boult, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., professor of public health, medicine & nursing and director of the Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, presents Guided Care, an emerging model of care for older multi-morbid patients that is demonstrating early success in improving quality of life and efficiency of healthcare utilization for this population. Providing perspectives from the Medicaid population, where there is significant behavioral health comorbidity, is Jim Hardy, senior vice president of care management services with McKesson Health Solutions. Hardy describes the growing trend toward closing physical and behavioral healthcare gaps for this population and adopting an integrated, whole-person approach.

Report Highlights:

• The real costs of implementing the Guided Care model;
• The eight key responsibilities of the Guided Care Nurse;
• Strategies to empower and motivate the older patient and move them toward self-management;
• Preliminary impact of Guided Care on utilization, quality and efficiency of healthcare for high-risk patients with multi-morbidity;
• Enhanced primary care case management efforts that encompass behavioral health;
• Suggested improvements for information transfer and care coordination across physical and behavioral health systems;
• Early efforts in multidisciplinary approaches in California, Illinois and Pennsylvania;

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QUOTE ATTRIBUTABLE TO MELANIE MATTHEWS, HIN EXECUTIVE VP AND COO:

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“Individuals with comorbidity — the presence of more than one disease or health condition at a given time — comprise more than a quarter of the population and account for 65 cents of every U.S. healthcare dollar. These integrated approaches can help reduce the cost of chronic care, which consumes a significant portion of state Medicaid budgets already strained by budget cuts and the failing economy. As the country shapes healthcare reform for the next century, healthcare organizations should be open to new care models that offer the promise of coordinated care for the elderly multi-morbid patient at reduced cost."

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