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Gain Inside Details on Stratification Strategies Used By Organizations to Provide the Most Appropriate Intervention to Patients With Chronic Healthcare Needs

Posted on: Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 09:01 CDT

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41726) has announced the addition of "Healthcare Risk Stratification: Strategies for Identifying and Referring the Appropriate Service and Intervention, Live Audio Conference on CD-ROM" to their offering.

Healthcare Risk Stratification: Strategies for Identifying and Referring the Appropriate Service and Intervention, an August 16, 2006 audio conference on CD-ROM, present case studies of how different healthcare organizations stratify by health risk, along with the type and frequency of intervention by risk level.

Health risk assessment data, claims analysis and primary care physician referrals can all identify patients who are at risk of current or future chronic care needs. But knowing who they are is just half the battle. To have an impact on both patient outcomes and healthcare costs, health plans and disease management companies need to not only identify members with the greatest opportunity for improvement, but provide them with the appropriate intervention.

During this 90-minute audio conference on CD-ROM, your expert panel of speakers, Thomas Ferraro, business development director with Mayo Clinic Health Management Resources and Penelope Kokkinides, national vice president of disease management with AmeriChoice, a United Healthcare Company, provide inside details on stratification strategies used by their respective organizations to provide the most appropriate intervention to patients with chronic healthcare needs.

You will get details on:

-- What factors are examined when stratifying members;

-- Special considerations for commercial, Medicare or Medicaid populations;

-- How race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and access issues factor into stratification; and

-- Case studies of stratification methodologies.

You can "attend" this program right in your office and enjoy significant savings - no travel time or hassle; no hotel expenses. It's so convenient! Invite your staff members to listen in.

Who Will Benefit From This Audio Conference?

CEOs, medical directors, disease management directors, managers and coordinators, health plan executives, care management nurses, business development and strategic planning directors.

About Our Panelists:

Thomas F. Ferraro

Thomas F. Ferraro is the director of business development with Mayo Clinic Health Management Resources in Rochester, Minn. In this role, Ferraro is responsible for creating unique relationships and revenue channels in newly identified national markets. His product focus is on population health management tools, which include Mayo Clinic's e-Health portal, telephonic behavior change programs and Mayo Clinic print publications.

Ferraro holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing Communications from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich.

Penelope Kokkinides

Penelope Kokkinides is the vice president of case management and disease management programs for AmeriChoice. AmeriChoice is business unit of UnitedHealth Group, the nation's largest health and well-being company, and is the country's premier provider of high quality, personalized public sector healthcare programs. Since 1989, AmeriChoice has served the public sector market exclusively. Today, it facilitates care for more than 1.2 million beneficiaries of government healthcare programs in 13 states.

Kokkinides graduated from the State University of New York with a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences and Classical languages. She has a master's degree in Social Work from New York University and a master's degree in Public Health from Columbia University. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in Public Administration.

Here's what participants said about the live program:

"The program was timely and the content was applicable to what is occurring in my organization...it contained information to our current circumstances," said the director of Group Health Cooperative.

"The conference provided very useful information, especially on how adminstering an effective HRA can help identify high risk people and intervene on them to drive down cost," said Annabelle Suarez, program manager with Merck & Co, Inc.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41726

Source: Business Wire

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