AmeriHealth Administrators Offers Customers Access to Healthwise® Knowledgebase, an online encyclopedia of medical information
Online health information resource enables consumers to have greater understanding of health issues and more productive dialogue with doctors.
Horsham, PA - July 1, 2006
AmeriHealth Administrators now offers customers access to HealthwiseŽ Knowledgebase, a valuable web-based resource for health information that supports health plan participants' ability to understand health conditions and work in partnership with their doctors to make more informed treatment decisions.
Accessed through AmeriHealth Administrators' secure online services, the Healthwise® Knowledgebase contains comprehensive, up-to-date information about health conditions, diseases, symptoms, medical tests, medications, treatment options and key decision points. The Healthwise® Knowledgebase further supports health care decision making by providing information related to the benefits and risks of various treatment options.
In addition to its valuable disease and treatment information, the Healthwise® Knowledgebase is an excellent resource for understanding disease prevention, complications and recurrence. This encyclopedic, online resource is user-friendly, containing helpful illustrations and definitions of medical terminology.
Healthwise® Knowledgebase is an important addition to AmeriHealth Administrators' consumer health care services, which are designed to give individuals a wide range of useable tools and information to support better health care decisions.
"Our goal is to empower our customers with tools to help them make more informed health care decisions. We view this as an essential element of today's medical programs and consumer driven health plans," said Gideon Hill, M.D., Senior Medical Director. "With the Healthwise® Knowledgebase, plan participants have convenient, online access to current information on a wide range of health care topics. They can use this information to gain a better understanding of the health issues that they are facing. The informed patient is better able to participate in the development of a medical care plan that meets their unique health needs."
Healthwise® Knowledgebase is one of many decision-making tools and resources AmeriHealth Administrators offers to help consumers be proactive with their health care. As part of its consumer-driven health benefits strategy, AmeriHealth Administrators offers a comprehensive disease management program that supports individuals facing treatment decisions and everyday health concerns. The program includes decision support, health coaching, outreach and educational resources. In addition, AmeriHealth Administrators offers plan sponsors an in-house, professionally staffed medical management program that is URAC accredited for health utilization management.
AmeriHealth Administrators consumer-driven health benefits are marketed under the HealthAccount+ brand. HealthAccount+ products and services include Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA); Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRA); plus comprehensive consumer tools and resources including the AmeriHealth+ account access card. AmeriHealth Administrators also administers Health Savings Account (HSA)- compatible high deductible health plans through its HealthAccount+ product line and has a preferred relationship with The Bancorp Bank to make HSA services available to its customers.
AmeriHealth Administrators is a leading national third party administrator (TPA) serving self-funded health plans throughout the
U.S.
As a full-service TPA, AmeriHealth Administrators offers customers total flexibility in plan design and integrated implementation, providing customized, cost-effective health benefits solutions to help achieve goals for savings, satisfaction and outcomes.
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