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Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease Analyzes Key Provisions in Health Care Legislation Released To-Date
Date:8/11/2009

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) today released a side-by-side comparison of chronic care provisions contained within health reform legislation passed out of committee. Also included is an analysis of how the bills can be improved to increase quality of care and reduce health care spending over the long-term. The publication will be updated as other legislation is introduced, specifically the Senate Finance Committee plan.

The publication, "Hitting the 'Bulls-eye' in Health Reform: Controlling Chronic Disease to Reduce Cost and Improve Quality," offers five recommendations for how Congress could better improve quality and reduce spending over the long-term:

  • Rollout evidence-based models for nationwide coordination of care in Medicare within the next three years;
  • Immediately expand the types of treatments in Medicare that would be paid on a "value," not "volume," basis;
  • Aggressively promote chronic disease prevention in the traditional health care system and beyond;
  • Remove barriers patients face to avert the development and progression of chronic illness; and,
  • Move from a paper-based system to a high-tech system that helps to coordinate care.

"In order to improve health and reduce costs over the long-term, Congress must include adequate provisions to better prevent and manage chronic disease, which affects nearly half of Americans and accounts for seventy-five percent of overall health spending," said Ken Thorpe, Ph.D., PFCD Executive Director. "The current bills are a great start, but as this analysis shows, there is more work to be done and bolder action needed from Congress."

Thorpe continued, "To 'bend the spending curve,' we need comprehensive reform of the payment and delivery systems, creating a syst
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