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Recognizing that seniors have a unique set of health care challenges, CDPHP has developed the Health Ally program for the Medicare population.
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At ProHealth Care in Waukesha, WI, community outreach is more than the hosting of an educational event from time to time.
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What would you say are the two strongest drivers of lost productivity due to a health-related problem at your workplace? According to Lisa Jing, program manager of integrated health at San Jose, CA-based Cisco Systems, these are depression and anxiety.
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By law, how far can you go in screening employees or altering leave policies during pandemic?
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Pick up any newspaper or magazine or turn on the news and you're likely to hear somebody talking about this country's obesity epidemic.
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If you assume that your workforce has better than average health statistics due to programs for nutrition, fitness, and smoking cessation, you may be sadly mistaken. On the other hand, you may have far fewer obese employees than the national average.
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Bon Secours St. Francis Health System received nearly $2 million in denials and successfully appealed the vast majority of them during the few months the Greenville, SC, hospital was part of the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) demonstration project, says James T. Jones, PhD, RN, administrative director, case management and patient documentation for the Bon Secours St. Francis Health System.
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A blended model of care management has decreased hospitalizations and emergency department visits and cut medical expenses for high-risk Medicaid recipients with Keystone Mercy Health Plan.
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As part of its focus on prevention as a successful strategy to improve the quality and lower the cost of health care, Independence Blue Cross has launched a program targeting members who are at risk for cardiometabolic syndrome, a condition that may increase a person's chance of developing heart disease and diabetes.
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People with chronic conditions who received telephonic disease management coaching based on their level of health activation had fewer visits to the hospital and emergency department than people coached in the usual way, a study has shown.
