Case Management Advisor articles from October 2004

Case Management Advisor archives from October 2004

Three-pronged approach improves care for Medicaid members; proactive case management replaced traditional UM services.
October 1, 2004... Keystone Mercy Health Plan, Pennsylvania's largest Medicaid managed care plan, takes a proactive approach to preventing and managing illnesses, injuries, and utilization among its 285,000 members by providing targeted case management and...

Care Calls helps members manage chronic diseases: program includes materials, self-monitoring tools.
October 1, 2004... Using a combination of telephone calls from certified case managers, written materials, self-monitoring tools, and reminder messages to physicians, Univera Healthcare is helping members learn to monitor their chronic diseases. The goal of...

Cultural competency program improves services: publicly funded population is from many cultures.
October 1, 2004... An innovative cultural competency program has helped Molina Healthcare serve a highly diverse membership covered under Medicaid and other government-sponsored health care programs. Molina, with headquarters in Long Beach, CA, focuses...

Studies show wellness cuts disability costs: it's just another benefit of health promotion.
October 1, 2004... It has been a long, hard struggle for wellness proponents to prove the ultimate value of health promotion programming in terms of employee health and well-being. In the early days of wellness--say, the 1980s--even the companies that had such...

CIGNA study supports integrated benefits: disability, health care work in tandem.
October 1, 2004... A new study by Philadelphia-based CIGNA confirms what a number of health care professionals have been asserting: the integration of disability and health care programs can help return disabled employees to work more quickly, or even prevent...

Advance planning eases care for aging: seniors, close relatives should prepare for aging.
October 1, 2004... Planning is something Americans do on a regular basis. They plan their vacations. They plan for the birth of a new baby. They plan for retirement. And they even plan for death. Yet few plan for the aging process. "It is good for people to start...

CE questions.
October 1, 2004... 13. Which of the following does not represent one of the three prongs of Keystone Mercy Health Plan's targeted case management plan? A. Pediatric population B. Members with chronic conditions C. Young adult population D....