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AIS's Health Business
Daily
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April
15, 2008
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"Our
data indicate that there are better than 20 million
adolescents and adults who have serious alcohol problems.
About less than 2 million receive any treatment in
the course of the year. And it's in the 100,000-or-less
[range] who receive medications. There is a big gap."
--
Eric Goplerud, Ph.D., director of The George Washington
University Medical Center's program Ensuring Solutions
to Alcohol Problems, commenting to AIS's Drug Benefit
News on what he termed the "tremendously
underutilized" drugs available to treat alcohol
dependency.
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…preventable
medical errors are included in WellPoint's new contract
language that will cut off reimbursement to hospitals
for services and treatments associated with "never
events" — surgery performed on the wrong
patient or body part, objects left in the body during
surgery, and so forth.
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Personal Health Records (PHRs):
New Strategies for Health Plans
An audioconference - April 29, 2008
Learn strategies for effectively developing and deploying
a PHR to serve the needs of stakeholders from Jan Oldenburg,
Internet Services Group, Kaiser Permanente and Scott
Heimes, SVP of consumer solutions for OptumHealth. Click
here. |
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People
On the Move |
Amarillo
Biosciences, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company,
appointed Peter Mueller chief operating officer
and director of research. Most recently, he headed Epicenter
Consulting Inc., a New Jersey-based health care
consulting firm that he founded in 2001.…Practice
Greenhealth, a firm aimed at improving the environmental
performance of the health care sector, named Robert
Jarboe executive director. Jarboe comes to Practice
Greenhealth with a background in creating nonprofits,
nonprofit mergers and transitions of government organizations
to nonprofit status. |
2009 Medicare Advantage Rates: Immediate
Strategies for Health Plans
An audioconference - April 29, 2008
Join Pat Dunks, principal and consulting actuary with
Milliman, and Brian Weible, president of Wakely Consulting
Group, to find out how to revise your product and pricing
strategies to prepare the best possible bids before
the submission deadline. Click
here. |
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Senators
Rockefeller, Hatch and Wyden and Congressmen Stark, Waxman
and Camp to Speak at Health Reform Conference July 10-11.
Click
here.
MANAGED
MEDICARE AND MEDICAID FACTBOOK: 2008
Get up-to-date enrollment data on all Medicare Advantage
plans.
Click
here.
ONCOLOGY
DRUG MANAGEMENT: A WHITE PAPER ON MARKETPLACE CHALLENGES,
OPPORTUNITIES AND STRATEGIES
Find out how to design a cost-effective oncology drug
program.
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