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Article: Learn to manage frail elderly patients for Medicare risk contracting success.
- Article from:
- Managed Care Strategies
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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Learn to manage frail elderly patients for Medicare risk contracting success
Some good models exist to guide your way
As the millennium approaches, the public consciousness is being hit with plenty of potential doomsday scenarios: asteroids hitting the earth, the year 2000 computer meltdown, and other catastrophes of biblical proportions. One scenario, while less dramatic than the others, may have the greatest impact on American society: it's the aging of the American population.
The number of people age 65 or older is expected to increase by at least 25% during the first two decades of the new century, as Baby Boomers enter their 60s.
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