How to Evaluate a Chronic Care Management Program for Your Practice

With chronic conditions on the rise and Medicare beneficiaries projected to grow significantly in the coming years, practices are turning to Chronic Care Management programs to improve patient outcomes and increase practice revenue. Here's how your practice can evaluate a CCM program and decide whether to implement CCM.

For practices, CCM can bring in a new stream of revenue, improve patient engagement, and be an attractive differentiator compared to other practices not offering Chronic Care Management.

Care Management delivers a number of benefits to patients by addressing the challenges that exist when a patient has multiple chronic conditions. With CCM, patients can streamline care, avoid duplicate testing, reduce healthcare costs, and enhance the patient's self-management skills.

Practices that don't already have the IT infrastructure in place to support CCM might benefit from co-sourcing or outsourcing, depending on the budget available and necessary to build the necessary infrastructure.