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Health plans across the country are coming up with innovative ways to tackle asthma, a disease that costs $11.6 billion a year in direct health care costs, according to the American Lung Association.
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The saying, "It takes a village" applies to asthma control as well, says Pamela Persichilli, RNC, director of clinical operations for Horizon NJ Health.
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Optima Health's asthma disease management program has generated $2.10 in savings for every dollar spent on members who have been continuously enrolled over a five-year period.
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When members of Passport Health Plan are hospitalized in the intensive care unit for asthma, the plan's asthma disease managers visit them on-site and work with the hospital's asthma educator to help them learn to manage their disease.
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An initiative to improve the health of pregnant women and their infants and toddlers has resulted in a drop in the infant mortality rate for Crozer-Keystone Health System.
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Since the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' (JCAHO) unannounced survey process began in January, the average number of requirements for improvement (RFIs) given to hospitals has increased to 6.9 as of April 2006, compared with 5.8 in 2005.
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A documentation improvement program in which care managers and coders work as a team resulted in an increase in revenue of more than $1 million in 2005 for United Health Service Hospital in Johnson City, NY.
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A case manager in a rural setting often is responsible for what it takes an entire case management department to do in a big city hospital.
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Case managers in rural hospitals have to think outside the box and find creative solutions to problems that their big city counterparts rarely face.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has approved a new infection control standard that requires accredited organizations to offer influenza vaccinations to staff, which includes volunteers, and licensed independent practitioners with close patient contact.