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DMAA hopes Congress will step in on MHS
Disease Management News, May 12, 2008
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With the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services’ (CMS) Medicare Health Support (MHS) program scheduled to end this year, DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance is focusing its efforts on Congress in an effort to extend the five pilots still remaining in the program, says Tracey Moorhead, president of DMAA.
But DMAA is equally focused on the issue of the medical home model as it gains traction among health plans and policymakers, Moorhead says. The group also is looking ahead to the next presidential administration and the prospects for healthcare reform that could include better care for chronic illness.
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