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Managed Healthcare Executive E-News
October 18, 2010
TOP SEARCHES: Quality // Providers // Law // Health/DM
In this issue
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 Improving medication adherence
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 Group Health gets $2 million to study value-based insurance
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 Gilfillan named acting director of CMI
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 BCBSA childhood obesity recommendations
Key Topic Updates

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Improving medication adherence
The New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) is calling for a national strategy to examine the role care teams can have on improving patient adherence to prescription medicines. Given the shortage of primary care physicians and escalating health care costs, care teams may be useful to better medication adherence, but more research is needed on how to best deploy them in a wide variety of practice settings, according to a NEHI report titled "Medication Adherence and Care Teams: A Call for Demonstration Projects." More...
Group Health gets $2 million to study value-based insurance
The effectiveness of Total Health, a benefits program for Group Health Cooperative employees, is the subject of a four-year study that the federal Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently funded. It's part of a trend to integrate care, insurance, and wellness programs and base them on research findings. The goal is to help people stay healthier and control health care costs. More...
Gilfillan named acting director of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
The newly created Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMI), which was created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), has an acting director. Richard Gilfillan, MD, who has directed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS') performance-based policy staff since August, has been named acting director of CMI. More...
BCBSA develops new childhood obesity recommendations
Childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years, leading to many chronic lifelong conditions. Obese children, for example, are more likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, are at greater risk for bone and joint problems, and are more likely to become overweight as adults. More...
Key Topic Updates
Thought Leadership
State of the Industry 2011: The uninsured
State of the Industry 2011: Accountable Care Organizations

Business Strategy
State of the Industry 2011: Insurers' Challenges
State of the Industry 2011: Employers offering coverage

Providers
State of the Industry 2011: Medicare/Medicaid Providers
Consistent administrative rules slim down the need for paperwork

Health/DM
Use keen judgment when launching health and wellness programs
State of the Industry 2011: Medical homes

 
 

 
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