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Research and Markets: How Healthcare Organizations Are Approaching Cost Control Issues in 2005

Posted on: Thursday, 7 July 2005, 09:01 CDT

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c20423) has announced the addition of Reducing Trend & Spend: Harnessing Healthcare Costs in 2005 to their offering.

Despite signs of cost trend moderation, employers remain critically concerned with the business impact of escalating healthcare costs and are looking beyond cost-shifting to attack the root causes of rising costs.

In this special report, "Reducing Trend & Spend: Harnessing Healthcare Costs in 2005," a panel of experts shares ways healthcare organizations are approaching cost control issues, from prescription drugs to consumer-driven healthcare options to disease management.

You'll hear from Mary P. Bryngelson, regional vice president, American Healthways, Dr. Bridget L. Eber, practice leader of pharmacy and consumer-driven health strategy at Hewitt Associates and Dr. Terrance Killilea, assistant vice president of pharmacy services for The Regence Group, on strategies for harnessing healthcare costs.

This 37-page report is based on the February 16, 2005 audio conference "Controlling Healthcare Costs in 2005" during which Bryngelson, Eber and Killilea described how healthcare organizations are controlling healthcare costs through consumer-driven healthcare strategies, disease management and prescription drug programs.

You'll get details on:

Six Key Healthcare Cost Management Levers;

Constructing a Build-Your-Own Consumer-Driven Healthcare Plan;

Steering Prescription Drug Utilization Through Efficacy;

The Regence Group's Evidence-Based Formulary Strategy;

The Disease Management Teaming Processes and Infrastructure at BCBSMN;

Results in Health Outcomes for BCBSMN.

Contents are entitled as follows:

-- The Challenges of Medical Cost Management

-- Prescription Cost Management

-- Case Study in Disease Management

-- Q&A: Ask the Experts

-- Glossary

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c20423

Source: Business Wire

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