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Breaking down financial barriers to long-term drug therapy
Patients for whom the cost of drugs is a barrier to treatment for chronic conditions have a variety of options— from discount card plans tied to Medicare eligibility (soon to be replaced by the Medicare Part D prescription program) to drug-company-sponsored prescription assistance plans. Knowing the way these plans work and the general eligibility requirements can give you a starting point for your patients to take control of their treatment plans.
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Plans could do a better job of presenting behavioral health
More Americans than ever before are using mental health services, yet more than a third of those who need treatment are not getting it. These are among the key findings of a new study, "Therapy in America 2004."
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Collaboration improves scope of disease management
Health plans reinforce to the patient what the physician has already told them. This is especially true when it comes to patients with chronic illnesses. For those patients, the personal relationship they have with their primary care providers (PCPs) can be the difference in whether they follow their prescribed routine.
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Industrywide EMR adoption accelerates as barriers are overcome
There are indications that the industrywide adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) technology has begun to move forward at something more than the glacier-like pace of the past few years.
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