PHILADELPHIA, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- AmeriHealth Mercy and its pharmacy care management product, PerformRx, will be a sponsor and a participant at the Annual Congress on Medicaid and Medicare and the Forum on Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care at the National Managed Health Care Congress (NMHCC), May 5-7, 2004, at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center.
Daniel J. Hilferty, President and CEO of AmeriHealth Mercy, will co-chair the Medicaid track, which will quantify the success of mandatory Medicaid initiatives, performance measurements and proposed restructuring models. The forum will explore the impact of SCHIP programs on improving care for children, challenges in serving clients with dual eligibility for Medicaid and Medicare, pharmacy benefits and disease management initiatives.
Mr. Hilferty will also moderate the opening keynote address “Dual Population Coverage Challenges,” Wednesday, May 5th at 1:45 p.m.
In addition, a PerformRx customer, Dr. Melvin Pinn, Chief Medical Officer of Virginia Premier Health Plan, will present on “Managing Pharmacy Benefits,” Thursday, May 6th at 3:15 p.m. Lucy Ricketts, Manager of Cultural and Linguistic Services for Passport Health Plan, an affiliate of AmeriHealth Mercy, will present “Managed Care Cultural Competency Strategies that Work” on Wednesday, May 5th at 9:00 a.m.
With more than 20 years of experience exclusively serving the Medicaid population, AmeriHealth Mercy and its affiliates comprise the largest family of Medicaid managed care plans in the United States, touching the lives of more than one million members in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia and California. For more information, visit http://www.amerihealthmercy.com/, http://www.performrx.com/ or the AmeriHealth Mercy/PerformRx booth, #613, in the NMHCC Exhibit Hall.
The 16th Annual National Managed Health Care Congress is the nation’s largest managed care event. An estimated 5,000 managed care executives from health plans, hospital/health systems, group practice organizations, case management organizations, academic institutions, military, Fortune 1000 employers, and Medicaid organizations will come to network, learn, and conduct business in the conference sessions and exhibit hall. Visit http://www.nmhcc.com/ for more information.
AmeriHealth Mercy
CONTACT: Rick Buck, AmeriHealth Mercy, +1-215-863-5102
