Access Management Quarterly: CMS announces preventive care demonstration project
Access Management Quarterly
CMS announces preventive care demonstration project
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a solicitation to implement a health promotion and disease prevention program through the Medicare Senior Risk Reduction Demonstration. The program enhances CMS' focus on prevention of chronic disease in the Medicare population.
The program aims to determine whether health risk reduction programs that have been developed, tested, and shown to be effective in the private sector can be tailored to the Medicare program. According to CMS, 82% of seniors have one chronic condition, and about 50% have two or more. Seniors with these conditions have better outcomes with fewer costly complications when they are diagnosed early and when they take lifestyle steps that are proven to improve their health.
Preventive benefits
In addition to the demonstration project, Medicare has instituted "Welcome to Medicare" visits for new Medicare enrollees that provide education and counseling about important preventive services as well as screening tests, shots, and appropriate referrals. Other preventive benefits Medicare offers include: cardiovascular screening blood tests, diabetes screening, counseling to quit smoking, and glaucoma screening for Hispanic Americans.
CMS will select up to five existing health promotion, disease prevention, and risk reduction organizations to participate in this three-year demonstration. Final award decisions should be made by spring 2007. For more information, go to: www.cms.hhs.gov/DemoProjectsEvalRpts/downloads/Senior_Risk_Reduction_Solicitation.pdf.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a solicitation to implement a health promotion and disease prevention program through the Medicare Senior Risk Reduction Demonstration. The program enhances CMS' focus on prevention of chronic disease in the Medicare population.Subscribe Now for Access
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