Read: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care
Read: Duke Heart Failure Program: 604033-HCB-ENG.
Answer the following questions:
1. How much money is Duke University Health System losing?
2. What are the financial results of the CHF disease management program?
Hint: Examine revenue and cost impacts for the hospital (inpatient and outpatient) and physicians' perspective.
3. What are the pros and cons of a CHF disease management program like the one at Duke from the perspective of payers, providers, employers, patients, and a private carve-out?
Please submit your work, not exceeding two typewritten pages, 12 point Times New Roman Type, 1 inch