Disease Management Programs Can Help Improve the Health of Medicaid Patients through Improved Care Coordination While Helping To Control Medicaid Costs.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c45064) has announced the addition of Medicaid Disease Management: Program Design, Features and Results, Audio Conference on CD-ROM to their offering.

Medicaid Disease Management: Program Design, Features and Results, an October 25, 2006 audio conference now available on CD-ROM, provides an in-depth look at how disease management program design and features can be structured to identify and engage Medicaid patients in need of care management.

Disease management programs can help improve the health of Medicaid patients through improved care coordination while helping to control Medicaid costs at the state level. The first step in creating successful Medicaid disease management programs is designing a program that can identify and engage Medicaid patients who may be eligible and in need of disease management programs.

During this 90-minute audio conference on CD-ROM, Dr. Philip Bonaparte, chief medical officer, Horizon NJ Health, David Hunsaker, president of public programs, APS Healthcare and Elizabeth Reardon, managed care director, Vermont Health Access, will examine what strategies are most effective in identifying and engaging Medicaid patients into disease management programs to produce measurable returns.

You will get details on:

* Locating, contacting and keeping Medicaid patient in disease management programs;

* Implementing behavior modification techniques that are effective for Medicaid patients;

* Getting the Medicaid population to understand DM and be involved in their healthcare;

* Building a process to promote buy-in at all levels;

* Understanding the difference between urban and rural populations and how this can affect disease management program success; and

* Evaluating and demonstrating a positive ROI in Medicaid disease management.

Who Will Benefit From This Audio Conference?

CEOs, medical directors, disease management directors, managers and coordinators, health plan executives, care management nurses, business development and strategic planning directors, state Medicaid directors and quality improvement executives.

Here's what participants said about the live program:

"It was very informative since it covered a number of different diseases," said Teresa Ross, Casemanager with Americgroup Community Care.

"Being a vendor with quite a bit of business in the Medicaid Managed Care business, there is lots of good information here for us," said Julie Sizemore, Vice President, Clinical Operations with AirLogix, Inc.

"The Vermont presentation represented a specialized population and approach that needs to be better understood prior to engaging in programmatic development efforts that target this population," said John Samawi, product performance manager, LifeMasters Supported SelfCare.

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