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Health plans add Crohn's disease to DM platforms
Former Print Version: Disease Management News, March 25, 2007
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Health plans seeking to move beyond disease management (DM) staples such as diabetes and congestive heart failure while at the same time attempting to affect commercial-rather than senior-populations, increasingly are adding Crohn's disease to their suites of managed conditions. The chronic and serious gastrointestinal tract ailment is less common than other diseases currently covered by DM programs. However, it has several factors that make it appealing for health plans to add it to their DM rosters: the disease often affects younger patients, there are new pharmaceutical treatments available and more are on the horizon, and it is a condition that lends itself to management.
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