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Illinois Blues, Hospitals in Quality Pact
Insurer Pledges $4 Million to Reduce Readmissions
If hospital readmissions are any indication of
quality of care, Illinois is trending toward the
bottom of the deck. The state ranks 44th in the
nation in the rate of Medicare 30-day
readmissions, and is getting worse.
The Illinois Hospital Association and
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois have
teamed up to reduce the rate of
unnecessary readmissions. So far
201 Illinois hospitals have
pledged to raise the state’s
performance from the bottom
quartile in the nation to the top
half by 2014. Blue Cross will
invest $1 million a year to support
the initiative for the next four
years.
“Not only is it the right thing
to do for patient care, it’s the right
thing to do for bending the cost
curve,” said Maryjane A.
Wurth, IHA president.
IHA’s PREP program, Maryjane
Preventing Readmissions
through Effective Partnerships, intends to apply
ve key initiatives:
* Redesigning hospital discharge processes;
* Improving care transitions;
* Developing palliative care programs;
* Reducing readmissions from infections; and
* Standardizing metrics for measuring
reductions in readmissions.
* among caregivers and patients, said Jeffrey
Charles Schutz, M.D., a medical director at
Blue Cross, said the joint project was like “an
alignment of the stars at a very opportune
moment.” Preventing readmissions has been
on the radar for some time. “We’ve been
looking for partners to help address this. It’s
not something you can effectively address as
an insurance company doing routine
utilization-management type things,” he said.
The hospital association approached the
Blues about three months ago, after the
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Commonwealth Fund released Medicare data
for 2009, showing Illinois’ 30-day readmission
rate increased to 20.3% from 19.6% in 2007.
Nationally, the median is 17.5% and the
average for the top ve states is 13.8%.
“That is not where this state should be,
based on the caliber of health care being
delivered.” Wurth observed. “Our
board of trustees said, we need to
step up our leadership role, give
them additional assistance. Then
we said to membership, We are
better than this. We need to raise
the bar.”
Hospitals will receive
assistance through four
established programs that have
proven successful in reducing
readmissions:
* Project BOOST, sponsored by
the Society of Hospital
Medicine;
A. Wurth * The Illinois Transitional
Care Consortium’s Bridge
program, which uses social workers to help
patients go from hospital to home;
* Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s training
program on palliative care; and
* AHRQ’s Project RED: Re-Engineered
Discharge.
Each of these has a slightly different take
on reducing readmissions. Project RED, for
example, concentrates on communications
Brady, M.D., the patient safety research
portfolio lead at the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality in Washington.
RED underscores the importance of the
pharmacist in the discharge process. “In many
hospitalizations, the goal is to achieve the
right balance of medications,” Brady said.
“The patient doesn’t always understand that.”
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Humana Enters Deal
to Create Incentive
Wellness Program
Humana Inc., the fifth largest U.S.
for-profit health insurer, has entered
a joint venture with Discovery
Holdings, a South African financial
services provider, to create a new
joint-venture corporate wellness
program.
The new entity,
HumanaVitality LLC, will give
Humana customers tools and
support mechanisms to lead
healthier lives. It will be based in
Chicago.
Discovery Vitality serves 1.9
million people world wide and
describes itself as “the world’s
largest incentive-based health-
enhancement program.”
Its U.S. subsidiary, The Vitality
Group, offers consumers “a
sophisticated health-behavior
chnage model supported by an
actuarially sound incentive
program,” the companies said in a
statement.
Discovery says that incentives
are essential to changing consumer
behavior. In 2010 it awarded its
members 500,000 flights, almost
20,000 hotel stays, and 3.5 million
movie tickets to people who met
goals for changing their lifestyles.
Discovery will hold 25% of
shares in HumanaVitality, and
Humana will gain a 25% stake in
The Vitality Group.
Michigan Blues Agree
to Roll Back Individual
Rate Increases
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
reached an agreement with the
state attorney general to hold rate
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NEWS
Reducing Readmissions in Illinois (Continued from Page One)
RED aligns resources so that patients
understand why they’re being admitted and
how their care plan is changing.
Project BOOST, by contrast, has an
emphasis on mentoring individual hospitals at
their specic level of competency and
resources. “It’s targeted and exible,” said
Mark Williams, M.D., chief of the division of
hospitalist medicine at Northwestern
Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He is the
principal investigator for Project BOOST
nationally.
“We got input from every component
that’s involved in the hospital discharge
process,” he said.
Readmissions have long been recognized
as a quality problem in U.S. hospitals, but the
industry has never focused on it, for a number
of reasons. Recently a news article
highlighted a handful of hospitals that had
successfully reduced their readmissions, but
that were forced to end their programs
because it was costing them too much
money.
“They were losing the revenue from
readmissions,” Williams said. “That has been
21 Charged in Detroit Fraud Cases
Medicare Bilked of $23 Million, Investigators Say
Federal prosecutors in Detroit charged 21
individuals with Medicare fraud on Feb. 17 as
part of a “nationwide takedown” of illicit
health care providers. The defendants include
owners and operators of companies,
physicians, physical and occupational
therapists, ofce employees, and patient
recruiters, according to the Ofce of the U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
“We want health care providers to know
that we are paying attention to billing records,
and that abuses will be aggressively
prosecuted,” said U.S. Attorney Barbara L.
McQuade. The cases include:
* U.S. v Hernandez et al. Ten 10 people,
including a physician, six clinic owners or
managers, two employees and one patient
recruiter were charged with submitting false
claims for nerve conduction studies in Livonia,
Mich.
* U.S. v. Mahmud et al. Five people were
accused of submitting false claims for physical
and occupational therapy at a location in
Dearborn, Mich.
* U.S. v Javidan et al. Three people, including
two physical therapists, were charged with
sending in false claims for home health
services and physical therapy.
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the nancial driver facilitating ignoring this
problem.”
Some community hospitals have
readmission rates of 25% to 30%, he added.
“If you dropped to 10% those hospitals would
go bankrupt.” The country can’t afford this any
longer, and the changes in federal law will
force everybody to pay more attention,
Williams said.
Schutz said the initiative is in large part
driven by provisions in the Accountable Care
Act that levy penalties on hospitals that don’t
control their readmissions rate. “That is
motivating hospitals all over the country to get
on the ball,” he said.
Those nancial penalties would be
signicant for Illinois hospitals, Wurth said.
Based on an IHA analysis of the new law,
Illinois hospitals would forfeit $680 million
over 10 years if the state stayed in the bottom
quartile, compared to what they would save if
they moved into the top quartile. “It hasn’t
created the need to change, but it’s providing
acceleration and emphasis” she said.
Erroll Sherman, 63, a podiatrist in Oak Park,
Mich., was charged with submitting $700,000
in false claims.
Surya Nallani, 43, a physician in Troy, Mich.,
was charged with billing $8.5 million for
excessive home visits.
Joann McGhee, 45, of Southeld, Mich., was
charged with participating in a $6.1 million
scheme to submit false claims for psychotherapy
services. She was also charged in Tennessee
with billing $1.1 million for services not
delivered.
Other defendants include: Tariq Mahmud,
53, of Canton, Mich.; Fatima Hassan, 43, of
Dearborn; Victor Jayasundera, 57, of Southeld;
Carol Gant, 65, of Berkley, Mich.; Vanessa
Dowell, 49, of Oak Park; Karina Hernandez, 26,
of Doral, Fla.; Marieva Briceno, 45, of Doral;
Dora Binimelis, 57, of Miami; Jonathan
Agbebiyi, 61, of Rochester Hills, Mich.;
Santiago Villa-Restrepo, 33, of Doral; Juan Villa,
28, of Doral; Isaac Carr, 28, of Belleville, Mich.;
Diana Brown, 50, of Farmington Hills, Mich.;
Jasmine Oliver, 32, of Oak Park; Henry Briceno,
57, of Miami; Mehran Javidan, 48, of West
Bloomeld; Vishnu Pradeep Meda, 30, of Troy;
and Ram Naresh Rajalupati, 31, of Canton.
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In Brief
increases on individual policies to
between 7% and 9.3%.
The insurer had originally
sought increases of 7.8% to 15%
for about 195,000 policyholders
younger than 65.
Blue Cross said it is taking
losses on these products. Under
the agreement, the not-for-profit
company will raise rates for 62,000
policyholders by 7%, and the other
133,000 individual policyholders
will see an increase of 9.3%. The
new rates may become effective as
soon as May 1.
Medtronic Trims Jobs
as Sales Decline
Medtronic, the Minnesota based
medical device maker, said last
week it will reduce its work force
by 4% to 5%, or roughly 1,500 to
2,000 positions. I
The company employs 8,000
in Minnesota. It wasn’t clear how
many of the layoffs would be in
that state.
Medtronic, the largest medical
device company, with 24,200 U.S.
workers and 41,000 globally, is
based outside Minneapolis.
Its cardiac rhythm disease
management division is losing
market share in key segments, and
saw its sales sales decline 2% to
$1.22 billion in the most recent
quarter.
A recent article in the Journal
of the American Medical
Association said that about 22%
of patients who received
implantable cardiac defibrillators
probably didn’t need them.
The market for cardiac rhythm
management devices and
pacemakers is slowing in the U.S.,
analysts say, although it is growing
in emerging markets.
Phil Nalbone, an analyst with
Wedbush Securities, said that
Medtronic is “starving for growth.”
Hospitals, physicians, and payers
have been taking a more critical
look at pricing and overuse of
medical devices.
NEWS
Illinois Blues Pay $25M to State, Feds
Civil Settlement Covers Medicaid Allegations
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois last week
agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations
that it denied coverage to sick children under
policies that it should have honored.
The civil settlement, among Blue Cross Blue
Shield, the state of Illinois, and the federal
government, arises from complaints of parents
of medically fragile children who are
dependent on technological devices to stay
alive and healthy. They said that Blue Cross had
wrongly terminated insurance coverage for
private-duty, skilled nursing care, so that it
could shift the patients to a Medicaid program
designed to provide home care for children at
risk of being institutionalized.
In a statement, the Blues said that the
settlement “resolves a longstanding dispute
concerning certain claims involving private-
duty nursing benets. We disagree with the
allegations and deny any inappropriate conduct
at any time.”
Under the agreement, Blue Cross Blue
Shield will pay $14.25 million to the state and
$9.5 million to the federal government. The
company will pay a further $1.25 million to the
state for allegations under the consumer fraud
law.
Blue Cross did not admit liability and
agreed to the settlement “to avoid the delay,
uncertainty, and expense of protracted
litigation,” according to a statement issued by
the ofce of Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. attorney for
Northern Illinois. The period covered by the
settlement is 2000 to 2010.
The Illinois Blues are the largest insurer in
Illinois. Their parent company, Health Care
Services Corp., also based in Chicago, is the
largest mutually owned Blues organization in
the country. It also controls Blues plans in
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The investigation was started by the ofce of
Lisa Madigan, the state attorney general, who
alleged that children whose care should have
been covered by the insurance company under
existing policies were instead shifted to the
Home and Community Based Services
Medicaid program, run by the Illinois Division
of Specialized Care for Children. Parents who
asked for a claims review after being denied
coverage were “fraudulently told” that their
children weren’t covered for private-duty
nursing, the government said.
Linda Wawzenski, deputy chief of the civil
division in the U.S. attorney’s ofce in Chicago,
said that patients were already receiving the
nursing care. “Then Blue Cross told them, ‘No,
this is no longer covered, this benet will no
longer be provided to you.’” Blue Cross denied
patient claims based on “internal undisclosed
guidelines that were more restrictive than the
language provided to beneciaries in plan
policy materials,” the government said.
Blue Cross, in its statement, said that in
cooperation with the state attorney general, it
had expanded the explanation of benets to
explicitly describe the nursing benets under its
plans.
Wawzenski said it was an unusual case for
her ofce, which usually prosecutes Medicare
and Medicaid fraud by providers.
“We settled it before we actually had to le
a complaint,” she said. The U.S. attorney’s ofce
is obligated to notify a defendant any time it
thinks there might be a serious case developing.
“Ninety-nine percent of the time, people are
interested in having a conversation with us,” she
said. In this instance, Blue Cross was willing to
discuss a settlement with the government
agencies before a civil case was led.
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OPINION Page 4
It’s Time to March Like An Egyptian
Uninsured Should Take to the Streets to Save Reform
Maybe the uninsured could learn something lobbying against repeal to the big insurance
from Egyptians and the Arab streets. At a companies such as Aetna, Humana,
time when the health reform granting most UnitedHealth Group and WellPoint
of the uninsured access to medical care is Worse, while the Institute of Medicine
being threatened, protests by the uninsured characterizes the consequences of a lack of
themselves are nowhere to be seen. access to care as “needless illness, suffering,
In 2009, a staggering 51 million and even death,” it is Republican physicians in
Americans had no health Congress brazenly lead the
insurance. The Urban Institute effort to repeal care coverage.
estimates that 400 of them die By coincidence, there are
each week due to lack of about the same number of
access to care. However, elderly on Medicare as there are
instead of pouring into the uninsured. Egyptians
streets to protest, the uninsured understand the power of an
leave the loudest push-back to aroused populace. Do the
(well-insured) political uninsured? In red states and
partisans. blue states in 2012, there will
One in six Americans is be congressional districts and
now uninsured. Where are senatorial races up for grabs
they? Their faces and voices and a contest for the presidency
and names are missed. At a featuring a man who made a
hearing led by Sen. Tom historic effort on their behalf.
Coburn, an Oklahoma By Michael Millenson Republicans have never put
Republican, a sobbing, forth a serious proposal to
middle-aged woman provide access to care for all.
confessed she couldn’t afford care for her Will they suffer any consequences?
brain-injured husband. Coburn, a physician, If anyone understands the power of
glibly responded that “the idea that individuals coming together to make demands
government is the solution to our on their own behalf, it is a black man who
problems…is very inaccurate.” The partisan started his career as a community organizer
Republican crowd applauded. on Chicago’s South Side. Yet rather than rally
An estimated 690,000 Oklahomans have the uninsured, President Obama has allowed
no health insurance. Why were so few in Republicans to frame the issue as a debate
the room? Why did hundreds of them not over the commerce clause of the Constitution.
jam into Coburn’s ofce the next day? Why The ght to retain actual funding for the
do they not continue to tell their stories? expanded coverage in the Affordable Care Act
Like the ruling elite in Egypt or Bahrain, is just beginning. It is a battle that Democrats
who genuinely don’t comprehend the can win only if Americans understand that the
problems of the average family, Republicans health and lives of their friends, neighbors and
are more likely than Democrats to believe relatives is at stake. For that to happen, those
that the uninsured really don’t have any whose lives are most intimately affected must
trouble nding care. rst stand up for themselves.
The political and legal peril in which
health reform nds itself is attributable to Michael Millenson is president of Health
the failure of the uninsured to visibly Quality Advisors in Highland Park, Ill.
advocate on their own behalf. Those without
health insurance have allowed the issue to Op-ed submissions of up to 600 words are
become a referendum on Big Government. welcomed. Please e-mail proposals to
And they have left the heavy work of dmoore@payersandproviders.com,
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DIRECTOR OF PHARMACY

(Urbana, IL)
Health Alliance Medical Plans seeks Pharmacy top-level individual responsible for drug formulary design and development,
implementation, contract negotiation, and risk management. Quality, utilization management, customer service, and cost
containment are key performance metrics. Responsible for dealing with the wide variety of clinical, administrative, nancial
and regulatory challenges involved in the management of pharmacy cost and utilization. Responsible for the supervision and
management of the Pharmacy Network, Pharmacy Staff, and pharmacy related contracting.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education, training, experience:

Education: Doctor of Pharmacy preferred.

Licensure: Current unrestricted license from the State Board of Pharmacy, State of Illinois by examination.

Experience: Five years industry experience and two years experience in managed care organization. Must include experience
in third party reimbursement, formulary and clinical programs. Government program experience (Part D and Medicaid) is
desirable. Previous experience in pharmaceutical rebates/discount contracting negotiation with pharmaceutical
manufacturers. Previous experience and understanding of retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, LTCF operation, billing, and
drug purchasing. Extensive experience with word processor and spreadsheet applications. Personnel management experience.

Other Knowledge/Skills: Ability to organize, interpret and distill large volumes of data formats and accurately communicate
issues to physicians, pharmacists, employers, administration, and Health Alliance staff. Ability to create and utilize cost
benet analysis (pharmacoeconomics) of therapeutic selection and available alternatives. Must be able to anticipate and take
corrective action in response to changes in pharmacy regulations, prescribing patterns, new therapeutic technologies, etc.
Ability to maintain a credible professional image with physicians and drug manufacturers. Must be adept at persuasion and
direct confrontation. Working knowledge of claims systems, pharmacy operations, and managed care required. Ability to
positively address issues from dissatised enrollees and pharmacists.

Contact:
Lesley Schacht
Professional Recruiter
Human Resource Services
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lesley.schacht@carle.com
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DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS – MEDICARE

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• Perform duties as senior liaison between the Medicare business unit and Corporate department.
• Partner with multiple stakeholders and business unit leadership to establish operational objectives and procedures.
• Support due diligence and integration for business unit expansions.
• Facilitate operational oversight for Medicare business units and identify opportunities for maintaining effective
operations.
• Ensure cost effective programs are developed and maintained throughout the business unit.
• Identify operational efciencies and develop “best practice” policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the development of new products and markets.
• Utilize corporate and industry standard management tools and techniques to effectively oversee projects; negotiate
with project stakeholders to identify resources, resolve issues, and mitigate risks.
• Coordinate cross-functional meetings with various functional areas to meet overall stakeholder expectations and
business unit objectives.
• Provide functional and technical expertise across multiple business and technical areas.
• Coordinate cross-functional meetings with various functional areas to meet overall stakeholder expectations and
business unit objectives.

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accountancy or equivalent. Six-plus years of experience in Medicare
managed care operations with emphasis on nance and information technology preferred. Project management, administration
or operations in the Healthcare industry preferred. Master’s degree preferred.

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