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Preventable problems and lower costs can be attributed to health care management.

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According to Christopher Coulter, chief medical officer at Precept Human Capital Management, employers should institute health care management programs to avoid having to pay for preventable health conditions in the future. He notes that, "For the first time in history, the adult population is sicker than the adult population was 20 years ago." He further states that the growing obesity epidemic will only exacerbate the situation, because experience shows there is a direct correlation between obesity and adult-onset diabetes.

Coulter indicates that there are three basic levels of care management, each of which addresses health care at various stages. Large-case management addresses the sickest 1 percent of the population, which statistically generates approximately 25 percent of an employer's total health benefit costs. He noted that disease...

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