Quote of the Day

“Managing [a fully integrated program that addresses finance, transportation, education and nutrition for dual eligibles] is as important as getting the right diagnoses in terms of the risk score adjustment....The most common diagnosis of our vulnerable population, particularly duals, is that they live in poverty. We talk about the inequality divide in the country today between the 1% and everyone else — these folks are living on $800 or $900 a month. Most of us can’t even fathom what that would be like, and that factors into everything that they do....Care management is really more of behavior modification....”



— John Baackes, president of Medicare VIP Plans for AmeriHealth Caritas, told AIS’s Health Plan Week.