Quality Assurance

Dramatic health gains predicted for Texas Medicare Demonstration Project

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 19th, 2004

XLHealth Executive Vice President Paul Serini announced that its disease management program will dramatically improve health care outcomes for the seriously ill Texans who are part of its Medicare Disease Management Demonstration project.

Serini, basing the company's outcome prediction on past experience, said that over a 3-year period, in aggregate, the approximately 10,000 patients enrolled in the XLHealth program will see a 50% reduction in amputations and other serious diabetes foot complications and a 50% decrease in repeat heart failure events.

Additionally, Serini said, "Though never measured before, the company plans to delay the progression...

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