Managing Chronic Conditions in Medicare


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Managing Chronic Conditions in Medicare
a Healthcare Web Summit Audioconference

You can register for this event for $195, or you can register for the Managing Health Care Costs Web Summit package which includes this and two other audioconferences plus on-line presentations and podcasts for $495.

This one hour audioconference includes the following presentations, with time allotted to ask your questions of the faculty:

	Can Medicare Control Costs for Patients With Chronic Conditions? Medicare Health Support (MHS) and Other Pilot Projects Vince Kuraitis, Principal Better Health Technologies, Boise, Idaho
Vince Kuraitis provides a brief history of Medicare Health Support and other demonstration/pilot projects involving chronic care; outlines a summary of current projects; reviews early lessons learned; and discusses the future of MHS and Medicare efforts to control costs for patients with chronic conditions.
	The Medicare Health Support Project Harry Leider, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer XLHealth, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Dr. Leider discusses XLHealth's approach to the Medicare Health Support (MHS) project; provides a comparison and contrast of XLHealth's approach to the other MHS projects; addresses the cost-cutting potential for MHS, and reviews the early challenges and early successes experienced with the project.