The AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies to Present at 13th Annual
Medicaid Managed Care Congress
May 16, 2005 - Philadelphia (PA) - AmeriHealth Mercy and its affiliate, Passport Health Plan will present at the 13th Annual Medicaid Managed Care Congress, being held June 13-15, 2005, at the Hyatt Regency in Baltimore, MD.
On Wednesday, June 15th at 9:00 a.m., Daniel J. Hilferty, President and CEO of AmeriHealth Mercy, will moderate and participate on the Medicaid Managed Care Chief Executive Officer/Chief Operating Officer Panel. The panel will include a discussion on the importance of working with state Medicaid agencies and communicating the value added by managed care. The panel will also examine the business opportunity created by the Medicare Modernization Act.
The previous day, June 14th, at 2:15 p.m., Joyce Hagen, President of Passport Health Plan, will lead a discussion on Taking Control of the Pharmacy Benefit. The session will educate participants on how to contain pharmacy cost trends while improving quality of care.
AmeriHealth Mercy's pharmacy benefit management product, PerformRx, is a sponsor of the Congress. PerformRx is the next generation pharmacy benefit management program with a proven pharmacy care management solution that meets financial objectives while improving the quality of health care for its customers. Within the Medicaid sector, by using the approach of linking traditional medical management with pharmacy management, PerformRx maintains an average annual pharmacy cost trend of 5% versus the national trend in the range of 15%.
With more than 20 years of experience exclusively serving the Medicaid population, AmeriHealth Mercy and its affiliates comprise the largest family of Medicaid managed care plans in the United States, touching the lives of more than 1.4 million members in seven states, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia, California and Arizona. For more information, please visit AmeriHealth Mercy or PerformRx.
IIR's Medicaid Managed Care Congress offers three days of workshops, case studies and interactive panel discussions with the nation's leading Medicaid experts who provide the tools required to thrive in the face of a continued state fiscal crisis, increased consumerism, and a heightened regulatory environment. With representatives from over 20 states, the event provides strategies to improve fiscal operations with the implementation of focused Medicaid operations for implementing quality improvement programs and effective chronic disease management initiatives. Distinguished faculty addresses how to improve fiscal operations with the implementation of focused Medicaid operations, control Medicaid pharmacy costs through innovative formulary management and specialty pharmacy programs as well as provides innovative techniques for Medicaid fraud prevention.
For more information on the 13th Annual Medicaid Managed Care Congress, please visit www.iirusa.com/MMCC05. |
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