On August 11, 2009, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease released a side-by-side comparison of chronic care provisions contained within health reform legislation passed out of committee. The new 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.
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