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Keystone Mercy Health Plan, Pennsylvanias 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 outreach to members with chronic conditions.
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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.
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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 absences, and also can lower total benefit costs.
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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.
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A majority of patients scheduled for endometrial ablation or a levonorgestrel-releasing IUD were willing to accept a 50% likelihood of treatment failure to avoid hysterectomy.
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Long-term treatment (up to 5 years) with soy phytoestrogens was associated with an increased occurrence of endometrial hyperplasia. These findings call into question the long-term safety of phytoestrogens with regard to the endometrium.
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The AFI offers no advantage in detecting adverse outcomes compared with the single deepest pocket when performed with the BPP. The AFI may cause more interventions by labeling twice as many at-risk pregnancies as having oligohydramnios than with the single deepest pocket technique.
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It has been recently recognized and increasingly reported that ovarian cancer patients frequently manifest symptoms, predominately related to their gastrointestinal or urinary tracts, a significant period of time ahead of their diagnosis.
