American Healthways, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Sign 5-Year Disease Management Contract; 'Heart Champion' Program to Support Members with Cardiac Disease.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2004 American Healthways, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMHC AMHC Association of Mental Health Clergy AMHC Aviation Structural Mechanic Hydraulics Chief ), the nation's leading and largest provider of disease management, care enhancement and high-risk health management programs, today announced a five-year agreement to provide its cardiac disease management program to approximately 6,000 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care members beginning March 1, 2004. The Heart Champion program will complement Harvard Pilgrim's extensive, highly acclaimed ac·claim v. ac·claimed, ac·claim·ing, ac·claims v.tr. 1. To praise enthusiastically and often publicly; applaud. See Synonyms at praise. 2. care management program, which includes services for patients admitted to facilities with catastrophic, long-term ambulatory Movable; revocable; subject to change; capable of alteration. An ambulatory court was the former name of the Court of King's Bench in England. It would convene wherever the king who presided over it could be found, moving its location as the king moved. and disease management needs. "Harvard Pilgrim has a longstanding commitment to clinical excellence and innovation, and we are confident that our partnership with American Healthways will enable us to achieve the best possible health outcomes for our membership with cardiac disease," said Roberta Herman MD, Harvard Pilgrim's Chief Medical Officer. "This program will work with members, their physicians and families to improve their health status and quality of life." American Healthways will apply a proprietary algorithm to identify members for the Heart Champion program. Members will then receive educational materials and personal interactions and interventions from highly skilled nurses. All of American Healthways' programs are designed to enhance the patient-physician relationship patient-physician relationship Medtalk A formal relationship that exists between the physician and the Pt, often equated to medical 'duties' that the physician must perform in a professionally acceptable manner. See Doctor-Pt interaction. Cf Abandonment. and are based on the whole person, not just their disease. Nurses use state-of-the art technologies to develop care support plans, set attainable goals and continually outreach to members to achieve improved clinical outcomes, improved health status, improved member and physician satisfaction and reduced costs. The Heart Champion program is a natural complement to Harvard Pilgrim Health Advance, a care management program administered by StatusOne Health Systems, an American Healthways company. Since June 2001, Harvard Pilgrim Health Advance has improved the quality of life for more than 7,000 members and decreased their dependence on the health-care system. "We are pleased that Harvard Pilgrim has chosen American Healthways as its disease management partner, and we look forward to working with them to offer their members the most integrated and innovative total health-care solutions available," said Ben R. Leedle Jr., president and chief executive officer of American Healthways. About Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is a not-for-profit health plan with 800,000 members in Massachusetts, New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). and Maine and has a network of more than 22,000 doctors and 130 hospitals. Harvard Pilgrim provides innovative approaches to health improvement and disease management, unique online tools that speed and simplify key transactions for employers and providers, and personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. health support for members at www.harvardpilgrim.org. About American Healthways American Healthways (AMHC) is the nation's leading and largest provider of specialized, comprehensive disease management, care enhancement and high-risk health management services proven to improve the quality of health care and lower costs. As of Dec. 18, 2003, the Company had over 1 million lives under management nationwide. For more information, visit www.americanhealthways.com. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Provisions This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that are based upon current expectations and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. In order for the American Healthways to utilize the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995, investors are hereby cautioned that these statements may be affected by the important factors, among others, set forth. Consequently, actual operations and results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. The important factors are included in the discussion in Part I, Item 1, and Part II, Item 7, of American Healthways' Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2003, and Part I, Item 2, of American Healthways' Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended Nov. 30. 2003. American Healthways undertakes no obligation to update or revise any such forward-looking statements. |
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