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No other chronic GI condition has a higher variable spend — from inpatient care to specialty and biologic Pharma expenses. SonarMD is the more effective way to bring early detection into the equation, aligning a patient’s needs with a care provider’s purpose.
SonarMD is leading the transition from reactive to proactive treatment of IBD. Living with this disease raids the pocketbooks and emotional stability of patients desperate for help, while straining the resources of providers who’ve made it their calling to help patients remain active and healthy. Getting ahead of the symptoms halts the progression of the disease and alters the severity and frequency of the inflammation. Read our recent study.
Colombel JF, Narula N, Peyrin-Biroulet L. Management Strategies to Improve Outcomes of Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Gastroenterology. 2017 Feb;152(2):351-361.e5.
IBD constitutes a diverse and progressive spectrum of chronic illnesses, presenting formidable management challenges for both patients and healthcare providers. Due to the inherent unpredictability of disease progression, proactive monitoring strategies…
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) was created by the Affordable Care Act to test new payment and delivery models that would lower spending while maintaining or improving patient care.1 As enacted, the Affordable Care Act…
The adenoma detection rate (ADR), is a key quality metric for colonoscopy, but it might fail to measure differences in adenoma detection in different parts of the colon. Because many post-colonoscopy cancers arise in the proximal colon, differences in…
Mental Health Disorders (MHD) are common comorbidities in patients with IBD. The cost of IBD in the presence of a history of a MHD has been shown to be 38% higher[i] when one of these comorbidities is present1 . IBD Patients with a history of MHD can be…
In collaboration with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been working to introduce innovative episode-based payment bundles to the market, working to drive an optimal…
Background: There is growing concern about the increase in CRC in men and women age 40 to 49 years. Although the cause of this increase is uncertain, there appears to be a birth cohort effect. We hypothesize that since CRC rates have increased in this…
