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A Medicare demonstration project at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City provides care coordination to help high-cost, fee-for-service beneficiaries comply with their medical treatment plan and access the community services they need to manage their chronic conditions.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island's case management department consistently scores in the 90th percentile on satisfaction surveys sent to members who have completed a case management program.
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Choosing February as American Heart Month is not coincidental. With Valentine's Day in February, it is a month in which people are heart-centric, in the spirit of honoring the emotional needs of the heart.
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Antibiotic-resistant infections are not new to the health care setting, but headlines throughout the country have increased public awareness of the potential risk of infection.
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Improving the health of patients in your hospital is a large enough challenge, but imagine taking on the well-being of an entire city.
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It has been a long, hard struggle for wellness proponents to prove the ultimate value of health promotion programming in terms of employee health and well-being. As the 90s unfolded, more evidence came forward demonstrating that wellness did, in fact, contribute to a reduction in health insurance costs/claims, helping to move wellness into the need to have category for a growing number of companies.
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An innovative cultural competency program has helped Molina Healthcare serve a highly diverse membership covered under Medicaid and other government-sponsored health care programs.
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Keystone Mercy Health Plan, Pennsylvanias largest Medicaid managed care plan, takes a proactive approach to preventing and managing illnesses, injuries, and utilization among its 285,000 members by providing targeted case management and outreach to members with chronic conditions.
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Planning is something Americans do on a regular basis. They plan their vacations. They plan for the birth of a new baby. They plan for retirement. And they even plan for death. Yet few plan for the aging process.
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A new study by Philadelphia-based CIGNA confirms what a number of health care professionals have been asserting: the integration of disability and health care programs can help return disabled employees to work more quickly, or even prevent absences, and also can lower total benefit costs.
