The cost of health care is skyrocketing. There is growing dissatisfaction with both health care quality and health outcomes. What can be done to reduce costs and obtain better value for our health care dollars?

Disease management (DM) is increasingly touted as the key to both improving care and reducing the costs of treating the chronically ill-the population with the highest health care costs. State Medicaid programs have begun to implement different approaches to DM, and the new Medicare legislation mandates several initiatives intended to improve the care of those with chronic illnesses. Does DM work in Medicaid, and can it work in Medicare? Two panels of experts, including the former secretary of Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration, will grapple with those issues.