"Remaking Chronic Care in the Age of Health Care Reform: Changes for Lower Cost, Higher Quality Treatment is nothing less than a blueprint for a new mode of chronic care. It depicts a current system in which there is little financial incentive to furnish coordinated services via appropriate primary care and few penalties for failure to deliver such care. Arguing that the current system is unsustainable, the book documents efforts that have been made to promote better coordination of care through patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations.\\Specifically, the book focuses on linking the ongoing innovations in health care practices with the supports for scaling up innovations found in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It shows how expanding and improving primary care as the vehicle for care coordination will reduce costs for those with conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, or other longstanding disorders, but also makes it clear that incentives have to be realigned if such improved primary care is to become a reality."--publisher description.

Demographic destinies -- Chronic illness in America today -- How well does American medicine deal with chronic illness? -- The patient-centered medical home -- Disability and chronic illness -- The chronic care model: designed to avoid the avoidable -- Financing chronic care -- The primary care shortfall: a wakeup call for an aging society -- Redesigning health care delivery for the age of chronic care -- The reach of the 2010 healthcare reform law: implications for chronic care.