CareWise, Inc. Teams Up with Regence BCBSO to Provide Perinatal Telephone Decision-Support Counseling Services.Business Editors, Health/Medical Writers SEATTLE--(BW HealthWire)--Aug. 28, 2000 CareWise, Inc. (a PhyCor company (Nasdaq:PHYC)), a leading provider of health care demand and disease management services, announced today that it is providing its award-winning telephone nurse counseling services to eligible members of HealthyBaby(TM), a Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon (Regence BCBSO) program. Regence BCBSO's 1,800 HealthyBaby program members are receiving pre- and post-natal decision-support after-hours each weekday, and 24-hours per day on weekends and holidays. Eligible members can call a CareWise nurse to get information and answers about health questions and concerns relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc their pregnancy and newborns -- everything from healthy eating during pregnancy, to a baby's first bath. "For more than 50 years, we have been committed to helping people lead healthier, more vital lives," said Paula Hook, R.N., HealthyBaby Program Coordinator at Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon. "Having a nurse available after normal physician office hours office hours, n.pl See business hours. for the expectant mothers expectant mother n → futura madre f expectant mother expect n → werdende Mutter f expectant mother n and new parents in our HealthyBaby program is an invaluable service." "Through our BabyWise program, which began in 1992, CareWise, Inc. has provided information, screening, and supportive counseling to expectant mothers throughout the perinatal period Perinatal defines period occurring around the time of birth (5 months before and 1 month after). The perinatal period commences at 22 completed weeks (154 days) of gestation (the time when birth weight is normally 500 g), and ends seven completed days after birth. ," said Phil Hadden, Vice President of Customer Service and Sales for CareWise, Inc. "We're pleased to be working with Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon to provide telephone counseling telephone counseling The provision of advice and verbalized moral support to a person with a particular need by a group of either volunteers or a paid staff with some level of experience and/or expertise in the area of interest; TC may include crisis that helps women make healthy choices for themselves and their babies." Founded more than 50 years ago, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon and Regence HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, Oregon have more than 1 million subscribers -- the largest benefits company in Oregon. Headquartered in Portland, this not-for-profit company is part of The Regence Group, an affiliation of Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. health plans in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah. It offers a full line of traditional, HMO, PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there and point-of-service health products, Medicare supplements and Medicare HMOs, dental, vision and life coverage, as well as administrative services for self-insured companies. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.or.regence.com. CareWise, Inc. is an international provider of health care decision-support services that lower the cost of medical care while improving patients' health and their satisfaction with their health plan. More than 4 million members worldwide receive the CareWise service through CareWise, Inc.'s domestic and international contracts. Clients include managed care organizations and health plans, employers, government agencies and unions. For more information, contact CareWise, Inc. at 800/927-9225 or visit the company's Web site at http://www.carewiseinc.com. |
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