Integrated Health Management

Author:

Scot McConkey, Jordan Battani

U. S. health plans must make successful efforts to reduce costs and to improve the quality and efficacy of the health care that’s delivered. Relying on the administrative cost reductions that can be achieved through operational efficiency continues to be important, but it’s not sufficient. Health plans must transform their approach to medical cost management in order to make it effective, and deliver sustained high-quality care at an acceptable cost.

The key to this transformation is to employ a more thorough and integrated approach to control health care costs: employing traditional medical management competencies within the context of an end-to-end wellness management lifecycle that extends beyond the walls of the health plan to include home, workplace, community as well as traditional health delivery settings.

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