MedAssurant, Inc., a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, announced today that the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium (DMPC) has certified the event rate outcomes for HIP Health Plan of New York (HIP) Medicare Advantage patients. The results show a double-digit event rate reduction which was achieved through a program powered by MedAssurant’s CCS Advantage™ disease management solution.
In 2007 MedAssurant teamed with HIP to develop a bold new approach to disease management. The initiative was designed around a highly data-driven appreciation of the individual patient in combination with a hybrid of targeted, patient-specific communications together with high-touch, in-market patient interaction. Advanced data analytics and a broad technological infrastructure empowered a highly customized approach to each patient’s assessment, communication, and care plan design. Being able to identify, stratify, and respond to the uniqueness of each patient’s disease and life situation enabled rapid, meaningful, and measurable impacts in engagement, clinical outcome, compliance, utilization, and overall costs.
“Being able to identify and report on the impact of distinct disease management program interventions is critical to industry-wide evaluations, but the methodology of performing such evaluations is also quite important,” notes Al Lewis, President of the DMPC. “MedAssurant has shown its commitment to use industry best-practice methods of impact measurement, and to make its methodologies transparent to its customers and the public, by turning to the DMPC to certify the impact on event rates of its program conducted for HIP. We are pleased that MedAssurant has committed to industry standards of calculation in the certification of their impact. In our experience, MedAssurant’s data-driven approach to a patient-specific disease management program is unique, and I must say that the HIP results are by far the most impressive in the tri-state area and among the most impressive in the country.”
DMPC has certified the event rate reduction achieved by HIP over a number of time intervals during which it used the MedAssurant CCS Advantage™ offering. Using DMPC’s methodology standards, a significant reduction in disease-specific inpatient events was seen within the Medicare patient population eligible for the program: