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World Health Care Congress Innovation Series
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Monday, April 4, 2011
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12:00 pm -
12:45 pm
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Session 2: The UnitedHealth Group Diabetes and Prevention & Control Alliance—an Innovative Approach to Diabetes Prevention and Care
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- A partnership with UnitedHealth Group, the CDC, the Y and Walgreens to help prevent and control diabetes, prediabetes and obesity through evidence-based, community-based programs
- Unique public-private-non-profit partnership to address growing national health care epidemic
- Diabetes Prevention Program: a group-based lifestyle intervention program to help people at high risk of developing diabetes prevent the disease through healthy eating and increased physical activity.
- Diabetes Control Program: access to community-based pharmacists trained to help people with diabetes manage their condition and improve adherence to their treatment plans.
- First-time reimbursement by health plans and employers for diabetes intervention programs, providing incentives for improved clinical and financial outcomes
- Powerful technology to help identify at risk populations and establish targeted interventions
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Deneen Vojta, MD
Senior Vice President of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform and Modernization
UnitedHealth Group
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Session 3: Improving Health Management and Reducing Costs through Hidden Risk Identification
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- Moving beyond care management program rely on managing people already diagnosed with expensive chronic conditions
- Learn about a patent-pending model that identifies hidden risk long before diagnosis
- Upstream employer strategies to target early interventions to improve and maintain health
- How to design and deliver targeted communications to improve health engagement
- Identify and create meaningful and appropriate incentives into successful benefit plan design
- Structure and leverage contracts with vendors responsible for health management programs
- Manage employee health from a proactive rather than a reactive stance
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Tina Brown-Stevenson
Executive Vice President, Healthcare Innovation and Information
Ingenix
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Session 4: Experimenting with Managed Care in a Medicare Supplement World—Leveraging Data, Patient Interactions and New Delivery Platforms
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- Recognizing that an individualized, holistic approach to health care delivery is essential to health care transformation, UnitedHealth Group – in collaboration with AARP Services, Inc – launched a series of care management pilot programs in 2008 for AARP members insured in the AARP Medicare Supplement Plan
- Piloting in 5 markets with over 13,000 members, this effort is delivering the first care coordination program by a Medicare Supplement plan
- Results from the integrated pilot program, "YourCare Connected" focusing on:
- Chronic Illness / High Risk Case Management
- Disease Management
- Pharmacy Compliance Management
- Depression Management
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Richard J. Migliori, MD
Executive Vice President, Business Initiatives and Clinical Affairs
UnitedHealth Group
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Charlotte S. Yeh, MD, FACEP
Chief Medical Officer
AARP
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