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Healthways sees vast potential in Medicare FFS market

Former Print Version: Disease Management News, September 25, 2007

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Despite poor initial results in its Medicare Health Support (MHS) pilot, Healthways, Inc., sees a vast potential opportunity in the Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) market for disease management (DM) services, and therefore has decided to stay in MHS-even though the pilot itself may lose money. That's the word from Healthways executive vice president Robert Stone, who says that the company also weighed whether the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would prefer to contract with organizations that have stayed in Phase I of MHS if CMS decides to expand to Phase II.

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