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Exercise As Medicine: How Physical Activity Helps Manage Chronic Disease

TUESDAY, Oct. 6, 2026 — Chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis and certain types of cancer are leading causes of disability and death worl...

CMS Broadens ACCESS Model to New Chronic Conditions

CMS will expand its ACCESS model starting in spring 2027 to cover heart failure, COPD, substance use disorders and tobacco cessation. The outcomes-based payment model, which launch...

Leading ACCESS Model Participants

The CMS Advancing Chronic Care with Effective Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) Model went into effect on July 5. The 10-year, voluntary model aims to bring “technology-supported care” o...

CDC Study Finds Almost Half of Senior Living Residents Had Four Chronic Diseases in 2025 

Residents are coming into senior living with higher levels of acuity needs. A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study reveals a growing prevalence of chronic health co...

Markov Decision Process–Based Personalized Follow-Up Planning for Type 2 Diabetes: Retrospective Cohort Study

Background: Personalized follow-up for type 2 diabetes may improve the alignment between monitoring intensity and patient needs, but operational approaches that jointly consider fo...

CMS extends ACCESS model to more chronic conditions as agency officials eye cross-payer alignment

The Trump administration is rapidly expanding its 10-year ACCESS Model, a value-based payment program that reimburses digital health companies based on patient outcomes rather than...

Who Answers the Call? Massive Trial Reveals Why the Sickest Patients Slip Through Care Coordination’s Fingers

A national randomized trial of telephone-based care coordination found that only 59 percent of high-need, high-cost beneficiaries could be contacted and fewer than half of those en...

From Sick Care to Self Care: Why Prevention Is Becoming the New Health Care Model

Rising costs and chronic disease are driving a shift toward preventive care and greater personal responsibility for health. The post From Sick Care to Self Care: Why Prevention Is...

Time, access, and continuity: unleashing the power of primary care

In a recent editorial coauthored with the editors of six other US family medicine journals, Dr. Sumi Sexton, American Family Physician’s editor-in-chief, highlighted the establishe...

Caring for Someone with COPD

+ Flipbook text COPD Caregivers Matter COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is a progressive disease of the lungs that causes inflammation in the airways and difficulty br...

Patients Experiencing Chronic Pain Find Relief Through Intermountain Health Connect Care

September is Pain Management Awareness Month, and Intermountain Health Connect Care is helping patients understand and manage pain virtually. The post Patients Experiencing Chronic...

WHO urges safer care for people living with noncommunicable diseases

NCDs include conditions such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and chronic respiratory diseases. The post WHO urges safer care for people living with noncommunicable diseases app...

Which Chronic Disease Combinations Raise Dementia Risk? New Study Points to Diabetes and Ear Disease

A community-based study of 2,458 older adults in China finds that suspected dementia is linked not just to individual chronic diseases like diabetes and ear disease, but to specifi...

Oura, Counsel Health join CMS ACCESS model to test whether wearables and AI can improve chronic care at scale

Counsel Health, an AI-native primary care company, plans to participate in CMS' ACCESS Model under the early cardio-kidney-metabolic track, with smart ring maker Oura serving as th...

Chronic Pain Care May Need Something You Can’t Get From A Prescription

Sometimes, managing chronic pain starts with not having to manage it alone.

Chronic Pain Care May Need Something You Can’t Get From A Prescription

Sometimes, managing chronic pain starts with not having to manage it alone.

Medicine Gave Itself a Code for Diabetes Remission. A Year Later, the Payment System Still Can’t See It.

By HANA KAHLEOVA “Will this only get worse?” Patients with type 2 diabetes have asked me some version of that question for my entire career. For most of it, the honest answerContin...

Alliance calls for better NCD patient care

Women’s health in primary care needs continuity, not visits

My wife and my daughter both have endometriosis. I have spent nearly thirty years working in community health, much of that time leading a federally qualified health center. I know...

25 years after 9/11, lessons emerge for long-term care

Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, long-term follow-up of people exposed to the disaster offers important lessons for managing chronic disease in disaster-expo...

Direct primary care gains momentum as experts weigh benefits and tradeoffs

Membership-based primary healthcare is becoming commonplace, offering longer visits, more individualized care and lower out-of-pocket costs for certain tests and medications, accor...

Home-Based Occupational Therapy Program Shows High Fidelity and 86% Goal Success in Chronic Conditions

For millions of people living with chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, musculoskeletal disorders, or chronic respiratory illness, the hardest battles are often fough...

Holistic Approaches to Chronic Pain Management

Chronic pain is a complex condition distinct from acute pain, often requiring a multifaceted management approach. Understanding its mechanisms—nociceptive, neuropathic, and nocipla...

5 tips for traveling when you have a chronic disease

(BPT) - Finding out you have a chronic illness is challenging, but it can be particularly traumatic when it happens far away from home. That's exactly what happened to Gretchen whe...