Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Case management is the planning, processing, and monitoring of the healthcare services given ...

Chronic care is health care that addresses long-term or preexisting illnesses. Simply put, those are diseases or conditions that last a year or more and require ongoing medical care or limit the ...

Case management was introduced in the 1980s as an approach for controlling costs by improving quality and ensuring the appropriate use of hospital resources at the bedside. Because of cutbacks and ...

A longitudinal, relationship-based case management approach significantly reduced health care costs and improved quality of life for Medicaid enrollees with complex needs over 1 year. Objectives: This ...