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Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH and Vince Kuraitis Last Tuesday during the cocktail hour, CMS issued documents portending the end of the Medicare Health Support (MHS) project. We initially used the word “bizarre” to describe the announcement from CMS’ staff. After further thought, “reckless” and/or “insubordinate” strike closer to home. First, let’s have the head-honcho [...]
Healthways stock price declined today by $10.52 (15.9%) after CMS “announcement” about ending Medicare Health Support (MHS) Phase 1. This equates to a loss of $389 million in market capitalization…poof! Gone. Healthways is one of the remaining five participants in the MHS program. Without pointing fingers, it’s obvious that investors were surprised by the news. What happened? Tags: disease [...]
Vince Kuraitis and Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH Today’s POO (persistent obfuscatory orations) Award goes to the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) for their posting of two bizarre documents updating progress on the Medicare Health Support (MHS) program. The documents “appeared” (no press release, no announcement, a reference to “today” but no date) on the web page for the MHS [...]
Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH and Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA The conventional wisdom in the disease management (DM) community has been that the Medicare Health Support (MHS) project would provide the evidence to resolve two issues: First, MHS would once-and-for-all resolve the issue of “does DM have ROI? (return on investment).” It was thought that the [...]
Please join me at a live teleconference next Tuesday, August 21 at 1 pm Eastern: New Health Plan Strategies for Disease Management: Lessons Learned From the Medicare Health Support Pilot Click the link for details about the agenda and registration. The faculty includes: CHRISTOBEL SELECKY, chairman, president and CEO of LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc. She also [...]
I know that I’m sounding like a broken record. The first “official” results from the Medicare Health Support (MHS) disease management (DM) pilot projects were published last week. While the results are preliminary, there is virtually no evidence of any early success. Here are three key findings from the executive summary of the report: Tags: care management, conference, disease management, [...]
Al Lewis, one of the founding fathers of DM, has shaped the face of the DM industry probably more than other any single individual. (This is all fine unless you happen to be the person whose face is being shaped by Al.) Al has been unabashedly pro-DM. Until now. Al writes in a recent article in Managed Healthcare Executive: Disease management as we [...]
End of the Mississippi Medicare Health Support Program McKesson Health Solutions; April 7, 2007 Recommendations for Integration of Chronic Disease Programs: Are Your Programs Linked? Preventing Chronic Disease; April 2007 Commercial Health Plans’ Care Management Activities and the Impact on Costs, Quality and Outcomes Congressional Testimony, Center for Studying Health System Change; April 11, 2007 [...]
Medicare’s major thrust at chronic disease management innovation — the Medicare Health Support (MHS) pilot project — continues to gather storm clouds. Today’s POO (persistent obfuscatory orations) Award goes to Healthways for their explanation of MHS progress (or lack thereof) in an April 4 press release. If you can understand what they’re saying about MHS (see p. 3) without having your [...]
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