Health Integrated's Advanced Care Management Proves Effective

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Integrated, Inc., a leading provider of Advanced Care Management services, presented with CoverColorado at Mosby's 16th Annual Medical Case Management Convention, held in Washington, DC.

The presentation titled, "Comprehensive Health Insurance for High Risk Individuals: Demonstrating the Impact of Advanced Care Management," was given on Friday, October 1st, from 10:45 am - noon, by Cheri Lattimer, EVP, Health Integrated and Barbara Brett, Executive Director, CoverColorado Health Insurance Plan.

"We believe that the best way to obtain positive clinical and financial outcomes is through the integration of programs and services," says Cheri Lattimer, RN, EVP of Clinical Services for Health Integrated. "The ability to integrate triage, utilization management, case management and disease management enhances the nurses ability to appropriately care for the patient at all levels of care and across all disease states."

To obtain these clinical and financial outcomes, Health Integrated has developed "Advanced Care Management." This comprehensive approach eliminates the clinical and operational inefficiencies of multiple vendors. Advanced Care Management provides a single point of contact for members and providers and allows UM, CM, and DM to work together for total patient management.

Advanced Care Management is showing an initial 3:1 return on investment, validated by the outcomes metrics for clinical, financial and health risk scores.

Health Integrated remains at the forefront of developing quality programs that integrate case management and disease management services and address both the medical and behavioral aspects of care. Their Advanced Care Management program is a primary nurse model and represents the most comprehensive approach to total patient management available in the industry, caring for the member at all levels of care and across all disease states.

Health Integrated, Inc. is a privately held corporation based in Tampa, Florida. It is one of the fastest growing health care management companies in the nation, providing comprehensive, integrated medical and behavioral support yielding improved patient outcomes. It is URAC-accredited for Health Utilization Management, Case Management and Disease Management.

For more information call 877-267-7577 or visit the website at http://www.healthintegrated.com/.

Contact: Donald Marks, MS Director of Marketing Health Integrated, Inc. 877-267-7577 Dmarks@healthintegrated.com

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CONTACT: Donald Marks, MS, Director of Marketing of Health Integrated,+1-877-267-7577, Dmarks@healthintegrated.com

Web site: http://www.healthintegrated.com/