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Premera Blue Cross new Case Management Collaboration Tool allows case managers to spend more time working with members, helping the company save an estimated $9.6 million a year.
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Since its one of the oldest incentive programs in the country, it might not come as a big surprise that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan was among seven Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Rewarding Results grantees selected to highlight its successes in pay-for-performance programs during a National Press Club briefing in Washington, DC, last November, but the results it has achieved to date are nonetheless impressive.
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Pay-for-Performance (P4P) programs can improve both medical care and quality of life by giving health care providers a financial incentive to seek measurable improvements in the health of their patients, according to a National Press Club briefing in Washington, DC, in November.
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Helping an employee return to work after a diagnosis of depression is similar in some ways to planning return to work after a physical injury, but depression demands a different consideration of limitations, timing, and clinical monitoring than most physical injuries or illnesses.
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A 6-year retrospective study shows that 45% of Medicare patients with state-funded drug benefits who initiate a medication for osteoporosis do not continue to take it as prescribed one year later and 52% are no longer compliant 5-years later.
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The FDA has approved a cfc-free levalbuterol aerosol inhaler for the treatment of asthma. Levalbuterol is the active isomer of albuterol and has been available in a nebulized solution for many years. This new formulation is marketed by Sepracor as Xopenex HFA.
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Tretinoin solution helps heal diabetic foot ulcers.
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Metabolic syndrome is common and is associated with an increased risk for CVD and T2DM in both sexes.
