(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ben Leedle, president and CEO of Healthways, Inc. today announced executive changes to support theAlliance Agreement with Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MHS)announced yesterday and other alliance activities of the Company. "Intoday's complex healthcare world," Leedle said, "the key to excellenceand continued growth is collaboration. No single company can have allof the core...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. & FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15,2006--Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MHS), the nation's leadinginnovator in pharmacy benefit programs, and Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ:HWAY), the market leader in high-impact Health and Care Support(SM)services, today announced a 10-year alliance to create, market anddeliver next-generation, fully-integrated wellness,disease-m...
-Healthways, Inc. will participate in the Bank of America Health CareConference 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada at The Four Seasons Hotel onThursday, May 18, 2006 at 12:20 p.m. Eastern/9:20 a.m. Pacific.Healthways President and CEO Ben R. Leedle, Jr. will present at theconference. The presentation will be broadcast online and availablefor replay on the Company's web site, www.healthways.com. Please go t...
Healthways Receives URAC Accreditation Renewal 4/25/2006 "We are proud to receive our third consecutive accreditation for disease management and our second consecutive accreditation for case management,” said Healthways Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer James E. Pope, M.D. “We commend URAC for its rigorous standards and for its role in ensuring quality healthcare.”Healthways was ...
CAREFIRST BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD, HEALTHWAYS FORGE A NEW FRONTIER IN POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT 4/21/2006 “This initiative takes population health management to an entirely new level, and it represents the single most integrated program of its kind,” said Healthways President and CEO Ben R. Leedle, Jr. “We are excited to embark on this journey with CareFirst to demonstrate the positive and dramat...
– Building on five years of successful disease management initiatives, Healthways, Inc. and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) today announced they are entering into a new, five-year strategic partnership that will enhance their collaborative efforts to deliver industry-leading support to the health plan's chronically ill members.“Working together, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachus...
– Healthways, Inc. today announced a new, five-year agreement with Knoxville, Tenn. based Cariten Healthcare to deliver enhanced care support programs to its commercial and Medicare members with diabetes, heart failure and coronary artery disease. The new agreement begins June 1, 2006, and will expand Cariten's existing suite of care management services.“We are dedicated to ensuring quality, affor...
Healthways Reports Second-Quarter Earnings of $0.20 Per Diluted Share on 33% Increase in Revenues to $100 Million 3/20/2006 ]]>
– Healthways, Inc. today announced a three-year extension of its contract with HealthPlus of Michigan, a health maintenance organization with over 195,000 members, to provide disease management services for members with diabetes, heart failure and coronary artery disease (CAD). In addition, Healthways expanded the agreement, bringing the Company's Impact Conditions program to approximately 1,800 H...
GLOBALHEALTH SELECTS HEALTHWAYS TO PROVIDE CARE SUPPORTSM PROGRAMS TO COMMERCIAL AND MEDICARE ADVANTAGE MEMBERS 3/16/2006 “Diabetes and asthma are increasing in prevalence and are of growing concern to us our members and our self-insured employer customers,” said GlobalHealth President and CEO Denise Semands Suttles. “Historically, the focus of these chronic diseases, which are responsible for a ...