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McKesson Previews New Comprehensive Payment and Business Intelligence Solutions at AHIP Institute 2009June 03, 2009 |
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Innovative Solutions Optimize Health Plans Payment Initiatives and Improve Medical Cost Spend McKesson will preview two of their forthcoming solutions at the America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Institute 2009. This year’s Institute focus is on practical healthcare reform, making it an optimal venue to preview these solutions which both directly impact the economics of healthcare. McKesson Total Payment™ Solution will provide a more efficient and optimized approach for clients to advance their payment management strategy while McKesson Performance Advisor™ will allow users to improve their medical cost spend with smarter decisions enabled by actionable, right-time business intelligence. By optimizing payment policies and enabling smarter, more efficient decision making throughout the claims process, Total Payment delivers essential clinical, contract and fraud intelligence to claims payment decisions. It includes modules for codifying and automating complex contract terms, flexible and robust claim auditing and proactive fraud and abuse prevention. Jim Evans, vice president of claims performance for McKesson, will present this new integrated approach to managing claims payment on June 3 in McKesson Booth #307. To address today’s rising costs and hard-to-manage medical spend, McKesson is previewing Performance Advisor: a scalable, enterprise-class business intelligence solution for health plans. This solution — for plans facing disjointed data sources and analytic systems that often house outdated data, are inflexible and reside in silos — combines McKesson’s renowned clinical, analytic and healthcare expertise with IBM’s industry leading business intelligence technology platform. Performance Advisor will more quickly and effectively optimize payor business strategies, allowing for decreased time to significant business value. Throughout the day on June 4, Dr. Tony Pelezo, medical director, McKesson Health Solutions, will be in booth #307 to answer questions and discuss current analytics challenges in the industry and how they can be solved with this new solution. “Though they meet very different organizational needs, both solutions support our vision of enabling more intelligent healthcare by connecting a health plan’s critical enterprise assets to facilitate faster, more-informed decisions,” said Carolyn Wukitch, McKesson Health Solutions senior vice president. “AHIP Institute 2009 is an excellent venue for starting a dialogue on these next generation solutions that will be key to providing the operational efficiencies needed to drive practical healthcare reform.” For more information on McKesson solutions and events at AHIP Institute 2009, including background information and multimedia, please visit http://www.mckesson.com/AHIP09news . About McKesson McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 15th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes, and improving the quality and safety of patient care. McKesson has been in continuous operation for more than 175 years, making it the longest-operating company in healthcare today. Over the course of its history, McKesson has grown by providing pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management across the spectrum of care; healthcare information technology for hospitals, physicians, homecare and payors; hospital and retail pharmacy automation; and services for manufacturers and payors designed to improve outcomes for patients. For more information, visit us at www.mckesson.com .
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