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Disease Management Programs Are Currently Being Developed to Serve Medicare and Medicaid Populations As a Strategy to Help Deal With the Cost Issues

Posted on: Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 09:00 CST

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c28625) has announced the addition of New Directions in Disease Management: Medicare-Medicaid, Strategies, Outcomes, ROI, Live Audio-Conference on CD-ROM to their offering.

"New Directions in Disease Management: Medicare- Medicaid, Strategies, Outcomes, ROI," a new executive-level tele-briefing on CD-ROM. Disease management programs continue to evolve as the field grows. Today DM programs are being developed to serve Medicare and Medicaid populations as a strategy to help deal with the cost issues.

This program looks at what's been learned from two successful "early adopter" DM programs, the difficulties, the challenges, and solutions working with specialized populations. Get a case study of how disease management can work in a Medicaid population.

"New Directions in Disease Management: Medicare- Medicaid, Strategies, Outcomes, ROI" focuses on new health plan initiatives in expanding their disease management efforts to plan members. There are useful charts and tables with program, clinical and financial results.

The program features presentations by three expert speakers:

-- Michael King, Senior Vice President, Business Development American Healthways

-- John Sory, Pfizer Health Solutions

-- Christobel E. Selecky, President, Disease Management Association of America

Presenters share details of outcomes improvement, integration of data, programs and platforms, the opportunities and benefits in Medicaid DM, an in-depth look at the Florida Medicaid DM program, behavior change, financial results and ROI, the implementation model, results of behavioral and clinical changes, and, details of utilization and cost improvement benchmarks and results.

Who Will Benefit From the Teleconference on CD-ROM?

CEOs, COOs, strategists, planners, business development, DM providers, product managers, consultants, hospital executives, managed care organizations, health insurers, employers, CMOs, vice president quality, vice president medical management, DM executives, DM program managers, case managers, DM software developers, analysts, directors of members services, network planners, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers and healthcare technology companies.

Topics covered during the 90-minute program include:

-- Innovative Development in DM

-- Key features of innovative DM programs

-- Aetna's DM initiative to serve Medicare Advantage members

-- Insight into enrolling health plan members for care enhancement programs

-- Treatment interventions

-- Reaching the target populations

-- How success is measured

-- Impact on outcomes and measures

-- Barriers to overcome

-- Lessons Learned

Representative Charts - Tables

-- Chronic Disease Prevalence by Age

-- Underlying Health Issues

-- Behavioral Changes

-- Clinical Changes

-- Impact of Care Management on Emergency Room Visits and Inpatient Hospital Days

-- Final Two-year Reconciliation

-- CHF- Exception report Reasons

-- Results - Changing Utilization and Behavior at the Population Level

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c28625

Source: Business Wire

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