A case for case management
Government Health IT talks about how Pennsylvania, a Casenet customer, is using information technology to tame costs and improve health care for Medicaid patients.
Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Welfare offers case management and disease management as part of its Access Plus initiative for participants in the state’s medical-assistance programs. The department has won praise for incorporating population health and disease management into a system that was once bogged down in cumbersome, manual processes.
Recently, Harvard University’s Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation ranked Access Plus among the top 50 programs in its 2008 Innovations in American Government Awards.
Harvard cited the program for taking “the incentives for prevention and disease management found in managed care and [adapting] them to fee-for-service settings.”