|
|
Article: Health Alliance Announces Promising Nine-Month Results from First Ever Outcome-Based Reimbursement Program for Actonel[R] (risedronate sodium) Tablets.(Financial report)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 NewsRX. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
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 (see also Spinal Fractures).
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 lower than the ...