The program showed improved health outcomes and cost-effectiveness and generated information to guide advocacy efforts to finance comprehensive asthma care.

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.

Summary Black and Hispanic children are hospitalized with complications of asthma at much higher rates than white children. The Boston

A community coalition that successfully addresses asthma health disparities with a strong business case and program outcomes can be leveraged to persuade policy makers of the value of innovative financing strategies for asthma care.

SBD exam is easier, faster to perform, with no brain function recovery and leads to similar donation rates, equivalent or better organ function status at the time of BD and lower cost than conventional DBD exams.