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Healthways reports new problem with MHS pilot data, results
Former Print Version: Disease Management News, February 10, 2007
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Healthways, Inc., last month cast new doubts on whether it would be able to recognize revenue from its Medicare Health Support (MHS) pilot project when it disclosed that new data shows it hasn't saved money when comparing its intervention group with the control group in the first year of the project. The announcement came as part of the disease management (DM) vendor's 2007 first-quarter earnings results that showed strong growth-better than expected, in fact-in core commercial operations. Still, the MHS news overshadowed other good news in the earnings report, and led to a drop of nearly 5% in value, although by mid-January the stock had recovered about half of that initial loss.
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