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In less than five years, 78 million baby boomers are eligible for Medicare 95% of all Medicare expenditures result from the 82% of current Medicare beneficiaries who have at least one chronic condition and the 65% of Medicare beneficiaries who have multiple chronic conditions.

These statistics are grim, but many of the most costly and prevalent chronic diseases impacting seniors today can be mitigated.

For Medicare Advantage health plans and other senior products, preventive focused health management programs reduce incidence rates of chronic disease, improve medical outcomes, avoid costly and dangerous complications and yield measured cost savings and improved financial outcomes.

To achieve this objective, successful Medicare Advantage health plans develop integrated care coordination strategies that effectively align the efforts of the care management team, primary care physicians and specialists and the patients themselves.