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IN OTHER NEWS ...• CMS has extended for three years a demonstration project for disease management of chronically ill,high-cost Medicare beneficiaries.

Published on Mon Jan 12, 2009

CMS awarded the extensions to Key to Better Health, a division of Village Health in New York; Massachusetts General Care Management Program in Boston; and Health Hero Network, Health Buddy Project in Oregon and Washington state. "The programs in the demonstration have had a positive impact on selected high cost Medicare beneficiaries and have met and/or exceeded the savings target required in the demonstration agreement," CMS says in a release. "By extending the demonstration for another 3 years ...each of the programs would have the opportunity to continue to impact their populations, maximize savings, and assist CMS in determining the replicability of the programs,"the release stated.
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