Press Releases: 2007

The AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies to Present at 2nd National Medicaid Congress

June 11, 2007 - Karen Michael, RN, MSN, MBA, Vice President of Clinical Services, AmeriHealth Mercy, will present Treating the Uninsured: Provider Perspectives on Caring for Uninsured Patients, at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 14th at the 2nd National Medicaid Congress. This year’s Congress will be held at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC, June 13 -15, 2007. Ms. Michael will be discussing PerforMED, AmeriHealth Mercy’s care coordination program.

The AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies and its affiliates comprise the largest family of Medicaid managed care plans in the United States, touching the lives of over 2 million members nationwide. The AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies specializes in providing management care services and management for publicly funded programs, with special expertise in Medicaid, Medicare and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP). For more information, please visit AmeriHealth Mercy.

The National Medicaid Congress will address critical questions about state uninsured initiatives, long-term care transformations, and Medicaid state benefit, delivery, and quality innovations. Chief among the Congress’s objectives are to examine emerging federal and state strategies to reform Medicaid’s long-term care benefits, analyze the leading factors driving Medicaid costs, and define emerging state strategies to reduce costs for health care services. The Congress attendees include policymakers, state legislators, medical directors, physicians, pharmacists and Medicaid managed care directors. For more information about the 2nd National Medicaid Congress, go to www.medicaidcongress.com.