PHILADELPHIA, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- AmeriHealth Mercy and its pharmacy care management product, PerformRx, will be a participant at the America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) 2004 Institute in Chicago, June 16-18, 2004. Charles Scammell, Vice President of Pharmacy Sales, AmeriHealth Mercy, will moderate a panel on Pharmacy Benefits Expand the Consumer-Choice Market on June 17th, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The panel will feature two leaders in the consumer-choice marketplace opportunities for pharmacy-only consumer- choice products or integrated pharmacy benefits. The panel will also examine how plans are designing and implementing these options.
Scammell leads the national pharmacy sales and marketing efforts for AmeriHealth Mercy’s pharmacy benefit management program, PerformRx. The program maintains an average annual pharmacy cost trend of less than 9% versus the national trend of 18%-25% within the Medicaid sector by using the approach of linking traditional medical management with pharmacy management.
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 six states: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia and California. AmeriHealth Mercy’s PerformRx pharmacy care management product serves over 890,000 Medicaid members. For more information, visit http://www.amerihealthmercy.com/, http://www.performrx.com/, or the AmeriHealth Mercy booth, #900, at the AHIP conference.
Covering the most important topics impacting health care, the three-day AHIP 2004 Institute will address unparalleled change in the health care industry and provide real-time solutions to the industry’s biggest problems. It will also feature organizations presenting rising health care costs, market trends and issues in disability and long-term care insurance, innovative disease management programs and future medical technologies and advancements. For more information, visit http://www.ahip.net/.
AmeriHealth Mercy
CONTACT: Rick Buck, +1-215-863-5102, for AmeriHealth Mercy
Web site: http://www.performrx.com/
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