Medicare and Medicaid

Health Net Expands Diabetes Program with Alere Medical

Published in Elder Law Weekly, July 4th, 2007

Alere Medical, Inc., a leading health management company, announced that Health Net of Arizona Inc. will extend Alere's diabetes program to all of its Medicare Advantage members with high risk diabetes. The expansion follows a one-year pilot program in which the Alere diabetes program reduced hospitalizations by 28%, among other successful outcomes.

Health Net of Arizona originally chose Alere to implement the pilot program with 300 of its Medicare Advantage health plan members with diabetes. Diabetic health care costs are five times higher than those of non-diabetics, on average. When diabetics have other co-morbidities, like coronary heart disease, disease management...

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