Article: Health Alliance Announces Promising Nine-Month Results from First Ever Outcome-Based Reimbursement Program for Actonel(R) (risedronate sodium) Tablets.

URBANA, Ill., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Alliance Medical Plans, Inc., a leading provider-sponsored health insurer, covering more than 310,000 commercial plan members in Illinois and Iowa, has announced positive outcomes from a nine-month Fracture Protection Program pilot launched in partnership with the makers of Actonel, a prescription drug for the treatment and prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis.

Through the program with Health Alliance, the makers of Actonel agreed to reimburse a maximum number of non-spinal osteoporotic fractures per 1,000 patients over one year. During the first nine months of the pilot, the reimbursement rate was 79 percent ...

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