Health Dialog and American Re HealthCare Enter into Strategic Alliance; Joint Agreement Offers Innovative Risk-Based Care Management Products to Health Insurance Providers.BOSTON -- Health Dialog Health Dialog is a major international provider of Care Management services based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded by George Bennett and Chris McKown in 1997, the company was built in collaboration with the not-for-profit Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making (FIMDM) to Services Corporation today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with American Re HealthCare to offer a range of customized innovative risk-based care management products to health plans, self-insured employers, Medicare and Medicaid Medicare and Medicaid U.S. government programs in effect since 1966. Medicare covers most people 65 or older and those with long-term disabilities. Part A, a hospital insurance plan, also pays for home health visits and hospice care. plans, and Section 646 plan providers. American Re HealthCare is a division of American Re-Insurance Company, a member of the Munich Re Munich Re AG, in German Münchener Rück AG (ISIN: DE0008430026), is the world's second largest reinsurance company with over 5,000 customers in 160 countries and has its headquarters in Munich, Germany. Group, one of the world's largest reinsurance The contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract. organizations. The strategic alliance will provide clients with access to a range of risk management products, including chronic disease specific carve-out coverage carve-out coverage Managed care The provision of certain benefits–'coverage' by an insurance plan through a contract with a separate set of providers. See Coverage. , specific and/or aggregate loss protection, and growth capital support through reinsurance. As part of the strategic alliance, American Re HealthCare plans to back, via insurance and reinsurance solutions, Health Dialog's agreements with its clients for designated levels of medical cost and quality outcomes. This would provide additional assurance to Health Dialog's clients that targeted performance savings will be realized. Health Dialog provides care management services to health plans, self-insured employers, physicians, government insurers such as Medicare, and others. These services include analytic services focused on identifying the nature of the opportunities to improve care for a given population as well as services that identify specific individuals for whom support might make a difference. The firm then provides telephonic and other support to those individuals who are receptive to such support. American Re HealthCare provides comprehensive, innovative, and flexible healthcare risk transfer solutions. These products combine underwriting, actuarial ac·tu·ar·y n. pl. ac·tu·ar·ies A statistician who computes insurance risks and premiums. [Latin , and medical expertise with exceptional financial strength. About Health Dialog Health Dialog is a leading provider of care management services, including disease management, and is one of the fastest growing privately held firms in the U.S. The firm helps physician groups, health plans, self-insured employers, and other payers improve healthcare quality while reducing overall costs. The firm's services include analytic services as well as telephonic and other care management support for individuals. Health Dialog helps individuals become more actively engaged in their healthcare and have more effective relationships with their physicians. For more information about Health Dialog, please visit www.healthdialog.com. About American Re HealthCare American Re HealthCare is a division of American Re-Insurance Company, one of the leading providers of reinsurance in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The Munich Re Group, whose business also includes primary insurance and asset management, has a preeminent pre·em·i·nent or pre-em·i·nent adj. Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding. See Synonyms at dominant, noted. [Middle English, from Latin prae position in the global reinsurance industry. |
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