One characteristic of disease management programs is that they typically

focus on individual episodes of medical care rather than on the comprehensive care of the patient over time

are used to coordinate the care of members with any type of disease, either chronic or nonchronic

focus on managing populations of patients who have a specific chronic illness or medical condition, but do not focus on patient populations who are at risk of developing such an illness or condition

use clinical practice processes to standardize the implementation of best practices among providers