Ancillary Care Management Celebrates Hemophilia Awareness Month With a Program That Helps Keep Hemophilia Patients Covered
Posted on: Thursday, 15 March 2007, 18:00 CDT
MINNEAPOLIS, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Honoring Hemophilia Awareness Month, Ancillary Care Management, Inc. (ACM) celebrates the work of leading foundations, local advocacy groups, and the thousands of volunteers dedicated to improving treatments and cures for bleeding and clotting disorders and preventing complications through education and research. As a long-term advocate and active partner in the hemophilia community, ACM joins with our healthcare partners in encouraging continued research and use of best- practices to address the hemophilia community's most critical needs and to improve the lives of people with hemophilia and those who care for them.
Hemophilia is an inherited disease that currently affects approximately 18,000 Americans, almost exclusively males, according to statistics available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the number of people affected is small when compared to more prevalent chronic diseases, patients living with hemophilia face a lifetime of expensive hospitalizations, frequent emergency room visits, and bleeding episodes that can be both life- threatening and costly.
ACM's nationally-recognized HemoCARE(TM) program plays a key role in providing the customized patient care, factor product inventory control, network pharmacy and assay management, and overall cost containment strategies needed to help ensure the delivery of quality and cost-effective care.
"We at ACM take great pride in our HemoCARE program and the positive impact we have been able to have on the lives of so many people living with hemophilia," Dr. Thomas J. McNulty, ACM's Chief Clinical Officer stated. "As we work with many of the nation's largest health plans, our expert clinical oversight and care management strategies have routinely been able to help the 400+ patients participating in ACM's program manage bleeding episodes, hospitalizations, and absenteeism from work or school. With a real focus on proactive patient education and referral to Hemophilia Treatment Centers (HTC) that have proven to deliver optimal treatment and comprehensive care, 85% of all HemoCARE participants receive treatment at their local HTC -- exceeding the national average by over 15%!"
"For health plans and other payer clients, the HemoCARE program also has delivered tangible and proven cost-efficiencies, with average savings of nearly $600 per patient per month. When just one hemophilia patient with an inhibitor can cost a health plan as much as $1,250,000 a year in drug cost alone, bringing proven best-practices in case management and cost-containment have been invaluable to helping our clients manage the rising cost trend in serving patients with hemophilia," McNulty concluded.
Leading the industry in performance, ACM's HemoCARE provides one of the country's most comprehensive and successful programs for managing every aspect of care -- both the high-touch specialty pharmacy(TM) products and the patient management expertise. To find out more about hemophilia and how ACM is working to meet the needs of the hemophilia community, please visit http://www.acmcentral.com/ . Additional information and resources are also available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at http://www.cdc.gov/ , the National Hemophilia Foundation at http://www.hemophilia.org/ , local Hemophilia Treatment Centers, and other national and international advocacy groups.
About ACM
Ancillary Care Management empowers clients to improve the management of healthcare services through technology-enabled solutions that enhance the quality, speed, and cost effectiveness of patient care. With over 35 million lives under contract, ACM manages specialty and infusion pharmaceuticals, home nursing, home medical equipment, and respiratory services. ACM is URAC- accredited for health utilization management and offers solutions that link participants in the complex ancillary benefits environment through a suite of Web-based tools, accessible through http://www.acmcentral.com/ .
Ancillary Care Management
CONTACT: Wendy Capetz of ACM, +1-952-826-2552
Web site: http://www.acmcentral.com/
Source: PRNewswire
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