PMID: 16617712Apr 19, 2006Paper

The price of good intentions. Mo. hospital's asthma initiative aims to reduce unnecessary visits and save HMOs cash, but is it killing its own bottom line?

Modern Healthcare
Laura B Benko

Abstract

Jay Portnoy, left, chief of allergy, asthma and immunology at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., took multitasking to the next level with a special disease-management program that focuses on asthma. Since starting the program in 2001, Children's Mercy has seen a huge decline in asthma-related ER visits and admissions. It's now selling its program to insurers.

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Asthma

This feed focuses in Asthma in which your airways narrow and swell. This can make breathing difficult and trigger coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath.

Allergy and Asthma

Allergy and asthma are inflammatory disorders that are triggered by the activation of an allergen-specific regulatory t cell. These t cells become activated when allergens are recognized by allergen-presenting cells. Here is the latest research on allergy and asthma.

Related Papers

Journal of Clinical Virology : the Official Publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology
Suresh B SelvarajuRangaraj Selvarangan
Zhonghua yu fang yi xue za zhi [Chinese journal of preventive medicine]
Ya-nan MaQin-cheng He
Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicaça̋o oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia
Alcindo Cerci NetoMaria Amélia Talhari
© 2022 Meta ULC. All rights reserved