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Overview
Your Benefit
- Participate in advanced strategic sessions on taking pain management to the next level with Oxford, BCBS, Kaiser Permanente, Aetna, and other leading health plans
- Be privy to the latest pain management research and resources
- Benchmark against multiple solutions from health plans
- Create a plan to customize and improve your pain management approach
- Narrow down the most effective, low cost alternatives available today
- Find ROI in the “hidden buckets” containing pain management costs
Care Management Institute, Kaiser Permanente
+ Applying a leading pain management program to your health plan
Regence BCBS
+ Adopting the most efficient methods to deliver high quality pain management in the face of rising costs, increasing regulation, and more frequent reports of abuse and adverse effects
Oxford Health Plans/UnitedHealthCare
+ Integrating non-physician providers and complementary/alternative providers
Priority Health
+ Learning from one year's worth of outcomes data to understand the success a multidisciplinary spine program to manage back pain
Molina Healthcare, Inc.
+ Applying Medicaid pain management tools, such as pharmacy lock-in program and a managed care approach to your plan
Aetna
+ Making the transition from clamping down on over users, to a more open model of analyzing who needs new prescriptions, what their options are, and how to track their progress
Horizon BCBS of NJ
+ Developing a multifaceted treatment program based on evidence and controlling exploding costs
Keystone Mercy Health Plan
+ Discovering the connection between pain management and healthcare disparities and the hidden ROI it contains
Inland Empire Health Plan
+ Comparing ROI for various approaches to disease management for pain based on data
BCBS of Tennessee
+ Integrating medical management, pharmacy management, and behavioral health management with effective case management
RAND Corporation
+ Developing emerging standards for elderly pain management and chronic conditions and applying those standards to your pain management needs
Duncan Aviation
+ Managing employee pain and other productivity inhibitors through lifestyle behavior change opportunities
Center for Healthcare Transformation
+ Moving providers from a disease-specific, acute-care model to an individual-based, information rich, comprehensive model to reduce costs and improve outcomes
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. and World Research Group (WRG). The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. designates this educational activity for a maximum of 24.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits(tm). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. is an approved provider of continuing education for nurses through the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # 50-94. This activity has been approved for 26.7 contact hours.
“Excellent Presenters!”
Kim Junkind
Senior Marketing Manager
WYETH PHARMACEUTICALS
“Innovative resources presented to assist with the evolution of my own programs.”
Karen DePascuale
Director, Behavioral Health
COMMUNITY CARE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
“What a very invigorating experience!”
Kathryn Katz
Senior Quality Improvement/Preventive
Health Coordinator
CONNECTICARE, INC.
“Really great mix of topics and operational programs.”
Rita Johnson
Behavioral Health Program Consultant
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS
For more information or to register, please contact the World Research Group toll free by phone at (800) 647-7600 or via e-mail at info@worldrg.com.
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