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Its not unusual for a care manager in Horizon NJ, Healths Care Coordination Unit (CCU) to get a thank-you note or a telephone call from a member or their relative enrolled in the managed care organizations program for publicly insured members with special needs.
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A sophisticated technology system helps the 2,400 case managers at Intracorp coordinate the care of nearly 2 million people each year and helps the company track outcomes information.
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In a quest to meet the growing need for disease management programs to demonstrate their effectiveness, a group of industry stakeholders has come up with a set of processes that can be used to show the outcomes of disease management.
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When Steve Dawson, PT, was first approached with the idea of teletherapy four years ago, he had to laugh. Providing therapy services over a videophone to a patient in a remote location went against the very grain of his profession.
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The most recent analyses by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Governors Association/National
Association of State Budget Officers indicate improvement in states fiscal situations and cautious optimism that the economic downturn is ending.
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The 2004 Making the Grade on Womens Health: A National and State-by-State Report issued by the National Womens Law Center and the Oregon Health & Science University says states are making some progress in improving health care for women, but often are taking two steps forward and one step back, so they dont make sufficient progress.
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Virginia officials and child health advocates over the next few months will try to sign up more than 6,000 additional children to state-supported child health insurance programs.
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An analysis of federal government data released during Cover the Uninsured Week in May indicates that at least 20 million working Americans dont have health insurance coverage.
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The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General says that in 2001, Medicaid could have saved millions of additional prescription drug rebate dollars if every state had collected rebates for all single-source physician-administered drugs and 40 multiple-source physician-administered drugs.
