Newsletter Articles | January 31, 2017
Strategy Considerations For Serving Consumers With Disabilities
Strategic health care initiatives are increasingly focusing on consumers with disabilities. The organizations undertaking them range from health plans and state legislatures looking to improved health status and lower service costs, to provider organizations attempting to balance the everyday needs of their consumers.
Why the interest? Most often, these consumers are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits and represent a large overall population and a sizeable portion of U.S. health care spending — in 2015, there were 10.3 million dual eligibles and spending topped $416 billion (for a great breakdown of the numbers, check out this month . . .