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Issue 24, December 24, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Inverness buys Alere Medical for $302 million

  In the second acquisition within six weeks in the disease management (DM) industry, Waltham...

• Milwaukee school system implements wellness, DM program

  Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) expects to save $9.3 million in health costs over three years with...

• Matria's DM, wellness revenues up 13% in Q3

  Matria Healthcare, Inc., says its revenues for the third quarter of 2007 increased 6% and its...

Issue 23, December 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• U.S. Preventive Medicine buys DM vendor SDM

  Startup wellness and prevention vendor U.S. Preventive Medicine has acquired disease management...

• DMAA, NCQA collaborate on outcomes guidelines

  DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance has released a second volume of its Outcomes Guidelines Report in...

Issue 21, November 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• DM, wellness programs widely adopted

  Preliminary results of a market survey of disease management (DM) and wellness vendors, purchasers...

• More intense coaching leads to significant savings

  Health Dialog Services Corporation is considering whether more intensive interventions ultimately...

Issue 20, October 25, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Education, motivation can be different in teens

  Citing research that shows the number of adolescents diagnosed with type 2 diabetes skyrocketing...

Issue 19, October 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• PHII, ex-URAC head launch accreditation program

  The Population Health Impact Institute (PHII), along with the former president and CEO of...

• MCCD report shows programs not achieving cost-neutrality

  Only a minority of the 15 Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration (MCCD) projects currently show...

Issue 18, September 25, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Health Dialog purchases early-stage company

  Boston-based Health Dialog Services Corporation said August 1 that it has hired the three founding...

• Healthways sees vast potential in Medicare FFS market

  Despite poor initial results in its Medicare Health Support (MHS) pilot, Healthways, Inc., sees a...

• Matria lowers expectations for 2007 revenue, earnings

  Marietta, GA-based Matria Healthcare, Inc., reported second-quarter earnings of $0.22 a share-in...

Issue 17, September 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Convenient-care clinics have chance to offer DM, wellness

  Convenient-care clinics-located where people already shop and offering affordable rates-have an...

• Diabetes registries most cost-effective IT-enabled solution

  Electronic diabetes registries-if adopted nationally-could save $8.34 billion over 10 years...

Issue 16, August 25, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Medicare Health Support not generating savings

  Some of the Medicare Health Support (MHS) pilot project vendors may have been at a disadvantage...

• Healthways will stay in MHS, cites Medicare 'opportunity'

  Healthways, Inc., intends to stay in its stand-alone Medicare Health Support (MHS) pilot, saying...

• Medicaid members in CHF DM program fill more scripts

  Medicaid members who participated in a heart failure disease management (DM) program had...

Issue 15, August 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• AIDS Healthcare Foundation protests changes in Medicaid

  The nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), which has run a Florida Medicaid HIV-AIDS disease...

Issue 14, July 25, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Medicare C-SNPs, private FFS gain in 2007

  The new Medicare reimbursement model that pays insurers more to take care of sicker patients has...

Issue 13, July 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Socialized medical systems 'fertile ground' for DM

  United States-based disease management (DM) vendors seeking to expand overseas are finding that...

• CMS considering reducing savings guarantee for MHS pilots

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reportedly has asked the Office of Management...

Issue 12, June 25, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• P4P in Pennsylvania Medicaid DM potentially raising quality

  Results from McKesson Health Solutions' two-yearold pay-for-performance (P4P) program within...

• XLHealth cautious but optimistic about its MHS pilot

  At least one Medicare Health Support (MHS) pilot- the Tennessee program run by XLHealth Corp.-seems...

Issue 11, June 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• LifeMasters moving ahead as Selecky returns to CEO job

  South San Francisco, CA-based LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc., wants to put the past year...

• Heart failure studies show mixed results from management

  Two new studies generally back the use of disease management (DM) in heart failure, but one of the...

Issue 10, May 25, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Secured Independence, Matria launch LTC program

  Scottsdale, AZ-based Secured Independence, Inc., has partnered with Matria Healthcare to launch an...

• McKesson cites lack of data in exiting MHS pilot

  McKesson Health Solutions ended its Medicare Health Support (MHS) pilot project in Mississippi...

• Healthways cuts revenue guidance, blames backlog

  Disease management (DM) vendor Healthways, Inc.,in Nashville cut its fiscal year (FY) 2007 revenue...

Issue 9, May 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• ADHD education, care coordination well-suited for DM programs

  Interest in providing disease management (DM) for children and adults with attention deficit...

• Nationwide Better Health acquires vendor WellCorp

  Columbus, OH-based Nationwide Better Health said last month that it has closed a deal to acquire...

• On-site program boosts enrollment significantly at Goodyear

  Using a "trusted clinician" to recruit potential disease management (DM) program participants...

Issue 8, April 25, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Use of telemedicine tools grows within DM

  A growing proportion of disease management (DM) programs include some form of telemedicine...

• Tufts requires DM before gastric bypass

  Tufts Health Plan says it has no plans to reconsider a new requirement that bariatric surgery...

Issue 7, April 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• MHS should be budget-neutral, DMAA says

  The Centers for Medicare & Medi­caid Services (CMS) should evaluate current Medicare Health Support...

• California taps McKesson for first Medi-Cal FFS pilot

  California's Department of Health Services has chosen McKesson Health Solutions to develop a...

• Chronic care initiative improves care delivery

  A national series of interventions designed to improve the quality of care in health centers for...

Issue 6, March 25, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Health plans add Crohn's disease to DM platforms

  Health plans seeking to move beyond disease management (DM) staples such as diabetes and congestive...

• LifeMasters adds Popik as CMO; plans new approaches

  LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc., which endured a turbulent year in 2006 with the failure of...

Issue 5, March 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Vendors coordinate DM with absence management

  Several disease management (DM) vendors are beginning to offer products that coordinate absence...

• Plans tackle periodontal DM, look at links with other diseases

  Health plans and disease management (DM) vendors, cognizant of the growing evidence of links...

Issue 4, February 21, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• PCPs ready to prove 'medical home' concept

  As some of the Medicare Health Support project vendors report mediocre results, the Centers for...

• Public, corporate payers launch new pregnancy DM efforts

  A planned Arkansas Medicaid high-risk maternity pilot project and a new CIGNA HealthCare maternity...

Issue 3, February 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• CT RFP to solicit Medicaid DM pilot proposals

  The Connecticut Department of Social Services (DSS) is working to issue a request for proposal...

• Healthways reports new problem with MHS pilot data, results

  Healthways, Inc., last month cast new doubts on whether it would be able to recognize revenue from...

• Disease management, behavioral health management effective for HealthPartners

  Offering a subsidized fitness program to Medicare managed care beneficiaries who have diabetes may...

Issue 2, January 25, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Firms see productivity gains from obesity DM

  Employers implementing obesity programs must push hard to encourage people to enroll, but once...

• CIGNA's CareAllies division buys U.K. health coaching firm vielife

  CIGNA said last month that it has further expanded its consumer engagement and health advocacy...

Issue 1, January 10, 2007 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• MHS may lose more participants in 2007

  One or more vendors may follow the lead of LifeMasters Supported Self-Care, Inc., and quit the...

• DMAA consensus guidelines on measuring outcomes draw praise

  The Disease Management Associa- tion of America (DMAA) last month released widely anticipated...

• DM insiders see bright future for industry, vendors

  The disease management (DM) industry has barely tapped the potential market for services and is...