1.   Disease management should result in healthier patients, less hospital time and lower medical costs, advocates say.

2.   They may not cure the disease, but could result in healthier patients who live longer and are less sick.

3.   Weeding out those drugs could mean both healthier patients and cost savings at a time of rising health care budgets.

4.   Will doctors with sicker patients be penalized because their outcomes may not look as good as those with healthier patients?

5.   The company blamed the shortfall on treating healthier patients, which hurt billings.

6.   Their findings also could spare healthier patients risky follow-up tests and procedures.