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Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is expanding its successful preventive health programs into the community, partnering with local organizations to offer health improvement programs to the public.
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If youre looking for opportunities to enhance your case management career, consider becoming a case management expert witness. As case management comes under closer scrutiny in the legal system, there are more opportunities for case managers to be called on to speak on standards of practice, ethics, and other issues.
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Drawing on its 30 years of experience in employee assistance programs, CIGNA Behavioral Health has begun a new Student Assistance Program to help students adjust to life on a college campus and cope with common behavioral health concerns such as stress, depression, suicide, and alcohol and substance abuse.
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Michigan hospitals track bioterror; Nursing organization adopts 2004 platforms.
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The regional offices of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arkansas each have their own identity but they follow consistent policies and procedures based on URAC standards for the companys case management program.
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A case management program dedicated to infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has saved Blue Shield of California an average of four days length of stay off each NICU admission, saving the health plan about $3,500 a day.
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On July 5, 2002, Baby A was born at a term gestation of 38 week by emergency cesarean due to prolonged decelerations. The infant had Apgar scores of 0/0/0 at 1/5/10 minutes, respectively, and a poor score of 4, 20 minutes after birth.
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Thanks to wireless technology, case managers working in Chicagos poorest neighborhoods no longer have lengthy waits to get referrals to other agencies for their clients.
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When new members enroll in one of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahomas (BCBSOK) health promotion programs, they receive free equipment to help them monitor their chronic disease.
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A field-based disease management care program in which nurses meet face to face with members with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease has resulted in dramatic decreases in emergency department (ED) visits and hospital bed days for patients managed by RMS Disease Management Services in Vernon Hills, IL, an affiliate of DaVita Inc.