(TKOS) Tokos announces agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio.SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , Calif.--(HealthWire)--Aug. 18, 1995--Tokos Medical Corporation (Delaware Delaware, state, United States Delaware (dĕl`əwâr, –wər), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States, the country's second smallest state (after Rhode Island). ) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :TKOS TKOS The King of Spades (online multiplayer game) TKOS Turn Key Optimized Solutions (French company) ) announced today that Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. of Ohio has contracted for a number of Tokos' services. Tokos provides comprehensive services to help managed care organizations and employers promote healthy birth outcomes and reduce maternity-related costs. Tokos said the company entered a risk-sharing agreement which will integrate Tokos risk screening and patient education services with the existing maternal-newborn Case Management Program developed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio. The agreement, similar to other arrangements Tokos has with managed care partners, is based upon established goals for reducing neonatal neonatal /neo·na·tal/ (ne?o-nat´'l) pertaining to the first four weeks after birth. ne·o·na·tal adj. Of or relating to the first 28 days of an infant's life. intensive care admissions and lengths of stay and for achieving a specific benchmark in patient satisfaction. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio covers 1.5 million lives with approximately 10,000 deliveries annually and has been an innovative leader in the state for programs aimed at improving birth outcomes. Kathy Gibel, RN, Manager of Case Management and Special Services at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio, said, "We have a long-standing commitment to identify alternative treatment programs that are high quality, cost-effective and clinically appropriate. We selected Tokos as our partner because they share our commitment to improving patient education and helping women actively participate in their plan of care." Terry Bayer, President of Tokos, said, "We are beginning to see the benefits of our managed care strategies through new partnerships created with market leaders such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio. Obviously, building these relationships is a much more complex and involved process than marketing a single service to a single physician. It requires an enormous commitment of time and resources but the return on investment is the ability to impact many more mothers and babies. We now have contracted services with more than 700 managed care entities and employers who can utilize our outcome reporting system to closely track their clinical, cost and patient satisfaction experience." Tokos Medical Corporation is the leading national provider of obstetrical obstetrical, obstetric pertaining to or emanating from obstetrics. obstetrical anesthesia an anesthetic procedure designed especially for patients undergoing cesarean operation or intrauterine manipulation of the fetus. homecare services. The company's headquarters are located in Santa Ana, CA. CONTACT: Tokos Medical Corporation, Santa Ana Terry P. Bayer, 714/474-1616 |
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