Audio CD and written materials of AIS's audioconference on May 18, 2005

Health Plan Strategies for Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome

Find out what new strategies major health plans and disease management vendors are implementing to reduce the incidence and cost of obesity and related conditions — which are damaging the health of nearly 50 million Americans and are among the nation's leading insurance cost drivers. What techniques are being tested? What results are being achieved from these efforts by industry leaders?

Sponsored by Atlantic Information Services, Inc., publishers of Managed Care Week and Inside Disease Management

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The U.S. spent $75 billion in 2003 to treat obesity and related conditions, according to the Centers for Disease Control, which estimates that one-third of Americans are obese and another third are overweight. Obesity also contributes to other high-cost chronic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

As the prevalence of obesity and related conditions — and their associated medical costs — continues to grow, employers and other purchasers are looking for ways to help enrollees more effectively manage their weight.

On the government side, CMS recently opened the way for coverage of obesity in the Medicare program, and now is evaluating possible treatments.

Disease management companies and health insurers have begun introducing programs aimed at helping to treat obesity and metabolic syndrome, a condition affecting 47 million Americans that includes obesity, hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol and related conditions) and hypertension (high blood pressure).

Hear executives from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Health Management Corp. (HMC) will describe groundbreaking new programs that address the obesity epidemic. You'll get all the details of how:

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Managers throughout your organization will learn details of groundbreaking new programs that address the obesity epidemic.

 

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SUE BINDER, RN, CCM, PAHM is director of the health and wellness education program at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. She directs nine in-house member-focused disease management programs using multidisciplinary care specialists (population-based case managers) as the foundation for member and provider interventions. Ms. Binder has more than 30 years of highly successful and diversified professional experience in the health care industry. She previously headed her own consulting firm, Integrated Healthcare Consultants, LLC, specializing in provider-based case management.

BONNIE SECHRIST, RN, BSN is director of clinical programs at Health Management Corp. (HMC). She is responsible for the overall management and clinical evaluation of all health management programs at HMC, and leads the development of disease management programs for HMC focused on diabetes, cardiovascular disease and respiratory management. Ms. Sechrist, who joined HMC in 1997, has a diverse background in health care, ranging from research coordinator at the University of Virginia to a position directing cardiovascular services at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals and Mary Washington Hospital. She has more than five years of clinical research experience, nearly 20 years of patient management experience, and 16 years of senior management experience.

Moderator: Jill Brown, managing editor of AIS's Managed Care Week.

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