American Red Cross Contracts with QualCare to Process Claims for a New Mental Health Benefit.PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- The American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. Hurricane Recovery Program has contracted with QualCare, Inc. to process claims and invoices for their new program Access to Care. Effective October 1, 2006, the Red Cross, through Access to Care, will help Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma obtain mental health and substance abuse treatment. The Program targets survivors who have experienced distress due to the hurricanes and are in need of professional treatment. "The thousands of people affected by these three hurricanes alone will need long term assistance and care and we are, once again, pleased to assist the American Red Cross," said Annette Catino, Chief Executive Officer and President of QualCare. QualCare also administers claims for the September 11th Mental Health and Substance Abuse Program through the American Red Cross September 11th Recovery Program. Through the Access to Care program, eligible survivors and families will be offered a limited, capped, portable mental health benefit. Access to Care is available regardless of where survivors currently reside, but based on their pre-hurricane address. The Program can be the primary payment source for those who have no insurance or other resources or can cover related out-of-pocket expenses out-of-pocket expenses n. moneys paid directly for necessary items by a contractor, trustee, executor, administrator or any person responsible to cover expenses not detailed by agreement. for those who have existing mental health insurance. Enrollment for this program will be from October 1, 2006 through October 1, 2007 (or until the charitable donations for the program runs out) and clients may seek assistance with services received from August 30, 2005 through April 1, 2008. Certain documentation is required and all eligibility determinations and enrollment activity is done by Link2Health, a non-profit subsidiary of the Mental Health Association of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Anyone interested in enrolling should call 1-866-794-HOPE or visit www.a2care.org. QualCare, Inc. is a full-service managed care organization that offers self-funded PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there , HMO Network HMO network Managed care An HMO that contracts with local hospitals to provide in-patient medical services, and with 2 or more independent groups of physicians to provide health services; the group is paid a set amount per HMO enrollee per month; in some, staff , Point of Service, and Open Access Health Plans, third party administration (TPA (Transient Program Area) See transient area. TPA - Transient Program Area ) services, provider network access, utilization management Utilization management is the evaluation of the appropriateness, medical need and efficiency of health care services procedures and facilities according to established criteria or guidelines and under the provisions of an applicable health benefits plan. services, and a Workers' Compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. product including medical case management, network access, TPA services and medical bill review and re-pricing. Headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey, QualCare is owned by 14 non-profit hospitals and physician-hospital organizations. QualCare contracts with 88 hospitals as well as approximately 19,000 physicians and other health care providers in New Jersey. Please visit us at www.qualcareinc.com. The American Red Cross has assisted people mobilize to help their neighbors for 125 years. Last year, victims of a record 72,883 disasters, most of them fires, turned to the nearly 1 million volunteers and 35,000 employees of the Red Cross for help and hope. Through more than 800 locally supported chapters, more than 15 million people each year gain the skills they need to prepare for, and respond to, emergencies in their homes, communities and world. Almost 4 million people give bloodCothe gift of lifeCothrough the Red Cross, making it the largest supplier of blood and blood products in the US. The Red Cross helps thousands of US service members separated from their families by military duty stay connected. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement “Red Cross” redirects here. For other uses, see Red Cross (disambiguation). , a global network of more than 180 national societies, the Red Cross helps restore hope and dignity to the world's most vulnerable people. An average of 91 cents of every dollar the Red Cross spends is invested in humanitarian services Humanitarian Services is an arm of the LDS Philanthropies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The organization's humanitarian aims are to aid impoverished families worldwide in becoming self-reliant, healthy, and educated as well as provide aid in emergency and programs. The Red Cross is not a government agency; it relies on donations of time, money, and blood to do its work. |
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