Care to Care: At the Forefront of a Changing Healthcare Landscape
New York, NY (PRWEB) November 02, 2015 -- "We've changed our company logo and tag line to reflect our focus on engaging payors to take a fresh look at Multi-Specialty Management; Care to Care collaborates as a specialty advisor with payers and providers to deliver better health for their members, or beneficiaries. Our focus is to use evidence based clinical decision guidelines to advise the provider community; guidelines that are “living documents”, trialed and created by academics and practicing physicians. Focus on the right test at the right time, improve access to care to expedite problem identification and provide guidance to the safest and most appropriate treatment, procedure and specialists for the problem or medical condition," officials at the company formerly known as Care to Care “Multi-Specialty Benefits Management” stated last week.
Care to Care, Multi-Specialty Management officials say the rebranding effort helps align the company for an expanded role in providing healthcare specialty services beyond the traditional Specialty Benefit Management space.
"As a specialty innovation company at the forefront of a changing healthcare landscape, Care to Care is delivering breakthrough products and services and enabling providers, and payors to manage specialized medicine in more affordable, effective ways through programs led by medical specialist” stated Frank Arena, MD, FACC, Section Chief Medical Oncology.
Specialty Management
Our innovative management strategies address the complex treatment and high cost of radiology and cardiology procedures, specialty referrals, radiation oncology, and medical oncology including oncology drugs.
Cost, Quality and Outcomes Management
Care to Care’s clinical strategy focuses on providing clients services that align with key elements of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) Triple Aim: improving the patient experience of care; improving the health of populations; and reducing the per capita cost of healthcare. At the core of these aims are evidence based solutions delivering value-based services to measurably improve patient health.
Network Management
Care to Care works with clients to develop the optimal channel management strategy for free standing, and outpatient hospital sites.
New Solutions
Care to Care Multi-Specialty Management looks at the whole healthcare picture, constantly re-evaluating and creating new programs that deliver actionable management strategies to the market. Earlier this year Care to Care announced the launch of its Referral Guidance Program. This “one of a kind” binary evidenced base program complements Care to Care’s oversight of high tech radiology, nuclear cardiology, radiation oncology, and medical oncology for our current clients and new risk taking clients. Members seen by providers using Referral Guidance proved to need 28% less visits to specialist than those not using the tool.
About Care to Care, LLC
Care to Care has been in operation since 2007. It has been accredited by the Utilization Review Accreditation Committee since 2009, achieving perfect scores during both reaccreditation cycles. Care to Care was founded on a commitment to using evidence-based criteria sets that were specifically designed for a prior authorization program aimed at achieving effectiveness in reducing waste for payers, their network providers and their beneficiaries, to provide cost-effective care by reducing redundant or unnecessary subspecialty referrals. Care to Care provides services to government, commercial and self-funded and risk based programs. http://www.caretocare.com.
Carol A. Folkman, Care to Care, LLC, http://caretocare.com, +1 888-770-7818, [email protected]
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