Multidisciplinary, coordinated disease management programs offer the opportunity to prevent costly complications and hospitalizations for chronic diseases, while improving QOL for patients and families. This cost analysis supports the business case for the provision of proactive community-based asthma services that are traditionally not reimbursed by the fee-for-service health care system.
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