Date: Friday, 19-Dec-97 18:47:17 GMT Server: WebSite/1.1e Allow-ranges: bytes Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Monday, 14-Apr-97 16:22:55 GMT Content-length: 3440 Universal Self Care, Inc.: Healthcare Management Solutions

Healthcare Management Solutions (HMS)

Universal Self Care's Healthcare Management Solutions (HMS) division is charting the company's future course of expansion. Healthcare Management Solutions has developed the first long-term managed care system designed to service employees with diabetes and patients of group insurers.

A supply maintenance service is available to the nation's HMO's, self-insured companies, and other group insurers by "carving out" diabetes patients from their general patient population. The unique supply maintenance service assures that our patients receive their diabetes supplies each month. Groups may also incorporate an all-encompassing maintenance drug supply program and/or a complete pharmacy benefit program to be made available to all members/employees. This is sometimes more attractive to smaller groups who may be leery of additional costs associated with a disease-specific carve-out plan.

Each program can be tailored to meet the group's needs based on the level of sophistication desired. The "Concept of Care" diabetes management program, introduced in February 1994, ensures employers and HMO's that diabetes patients enrolled in this program will receive the individual care and depth of service they require to help manage their disease.

The program calls for the use of generic and formulary product line to provide cost savings, and "nagging medicine" (constant supervision by Healthcare Management Solutions) as incentives to assure the HMO or company that these individuals are taking care of themselves per their physician's prescribed treatment regimen.

Recent studies by the National Institutes of Health have shown that when diabetes is closely managed, the chance of complications- heart disease, kidney disease, strokes, blindness, and amputations- are decreased by 50% to 76%. This provides for a healthier, happier, more productive patient/employee, and also ensures significant long-term cost savings for the HMO or self-insured company.

Healthcare Management Solutions has signed on The Black & Decker Corporation and nine HMO's for this program and is currently working with other Fortune 500 companies, insurance companies, Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) firms, and Third Party Administrators (TPAs).

For more information on Diabetes Management, click here.

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