Codman Group Announces Contract Renewal with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota; Blue Cross and Blue Shield Invests in a Healthier Minnesota.ANDOVER, Mass.--(BW HealthWire)--July 13, 1999-- Codman Group announced today the renewal of a three year software license for the Pandora Managed Care Information System (MCIS (Microsoft Commercial Internet System) A family of Web server software products from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT and works with Internet Information Server (IIS). ) with 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 Minnesota (BCBSMN). Using Codman Group's Pandora MCIS, the Health Management Division of BCBSMN works intensively with its largest primary care clinics to help improve the delivery of health care to its members by obtaining a better understanding of utilization rates and expenditures. These results are more meaningful because they are adjusted for patients' age, gender, and morbidity status using the ACG ACG American College of Gastroenterology; angiocardiography; apexcardiogram. AcG accelerator globulin (coagulation factor V). AcG accelerator globulin (clotting factor V). capability built into Pandora MCIS. BCBSMN uses the Codman Group's Pandora MCIS to generate a series of analytical databases and reports based on membership, provider and claims data. These databases are updated quarterly and provide clinical comparisons for many different measures of utilization and expenditure. About BCBS BCBS Blue Cross/Blue Shield BCBS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision BCBS Barre Center for Buddhist Studies BCBS Bay City Baptist School BCBS Bishop Cotton Boys School (Bangalore, India) BCBS Bar Code Business Software MN Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota was chartered in 1933 as Minnesota's first health plan and continues to carry out its charter mission today: to provide a wider, more economical and timely availability of health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract for the people of Minnesota. A not for profit, taxable organization, Blue Cross is the largest health plan based in Minnesota, covering nearly 1.9 million members in Minnesota and nationally through its health plans or plans administered by its affiliated companies Affiliated Companies A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company. Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way. Notes: An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary. . Headquartered in the St. Paul suburb of Eagan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
About Codman Codman Group, located in Andover, MA, provides software systems and specialized knowledge to help healthcare organizations lower costs and improve quality. Since pioneering the use of population-based analytics more than a decade ago, Codman is nationally recognized for its leadership in developing risk-adjusted health care profiles. Codman's customers include over 30 commercial and government healthcare payers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans in 13 states and State Medicaid Plans in 6 states. |
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