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The Best Health Plans in Disease Management: Fall 2010 Edition Released by HIRC

The newest, most comprehensive Health Industries Research Co. report on the DM/wellness/medical home fields is available from the DMPC at a large, exclusive discount using PayPal as follows:

(1) Non-DMPC members: $1000
(2) DMPC standard "associate members" $500
(3) DMPC full members other than below: $500
(4) Premium and unlimited-level members: Free
(5) Full members for whom a DMPC bid is or has been brokered, and full members on the annual retainer: Free

Note that our arrangement with HIRC is only for electronic copies and does not include the full report on the managed health care field other than disease management. That is available only to HIRC clients.

The Fall 2010 report features:

(1) Up-to-date statistics on the leading vendors in disease management--revenues, members, customers, and many other statistics

(2) Industry statistics as a whole: Size, growth, and composition by both diseases and customer types over time

(3) Growth projections by customer type and by (broadly speaking) disease category through 2012

(4) Market research from medical directors on why they picked (and/or didn't pick or dropped) certain vendors

(5) A new section on wellness – its market size and projections, like validity, and leading vendors (with revenues)

(6) A comprehensive summary, including outcomes, on patient-centered medical homes.

(7) A sophisticated critique of industry outcomes methodologies

(8) Most importantly, HIRC has awarded the "best disease management program" designation to roughly 5% of health plans, 1% of employers and 4% of states (that would be two states, if you do the math). We are pleased that as in 2005 through 2009, the vast majority of award recipients are DMPC members. Every payor Certified for Savings Measurement Validity by DMPC won the designation this year.

Use PayPal or call 781 856 3962 to order a copy.


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With your HIRC Disease Management Report order, there are two extras available @$300

Deconstruction of North Carolina Medical Home Outcomes Reports
(1) An independent, proprietary measurement of financial and clinical outcomes in the best-known Medicaid Medical Home model, Community Care of North Carolina
(2) All the backup data to the North Carolina report so that you undertake further analysis or investigation if you choose.

Entire Back-Issue Library of Reports, 2002-2009


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Reasons DMPC members dominate the awards year after year

Reasons that DMPC payors dominated the awards are several-fold:

—DMPC advocates for its members at all stages--with employers, with the media, and in situations like this--so we actively persevered in the nominating process on behalf of our members who are most committed to the disease management philosophy and have valid outcomes

—DMPC members invariably get the best prices and guarantees in the marketplace...and financials mattered a lot in the selections

—Statistically speaking, most outsourcing payors are DMPC members

—The HIRC awards weight DMPC Savings Measurement Validity certification heavily since it is the only widely accepted "refereeing" for correct measurement by payors.

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