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Who benefits most in disease management programs: Improving target efficiency

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  • Timothy Simcoe
  • Maryaline Catillon
  • Paul Gertler

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Disease management programs aim to reduce cost by improving the quality of care for chronic diseases. Evidence of their effectiveness is mixed. Reducing health care spending sufficiently to cover program costs has proved particularly challenging. This study uses a difference in differences design to examine the impact of a diabetes disease management program for high risk patients on preventive tests, health outcomes, and cost of care. Heterogeneity is examined along the dimensions of severity (measured using the proxy of poor glycemic control) and preventive testing received in the baseline year. Although disease management programs tend to focus on the sickest, the impact of this program concentrates in the group of people who had not received recommended tests in the preintervention period. If confirmed, such findings are practically important to improve cost‐effectiveness in disease management programs by targeting relevant subgroups defined both based on severity and on (missing) test information.

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  • Timothy Simcoe & Maryaline Catillon & Paul Gertler, 2019. "Who benefits most in disease management programs: Improving target efficiency," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(2), pages 189-203, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:hlthec:v:28:y:2019:i:2:p:189-203
    DOI: 10.1002/hec.3836
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