Maternity Management Program Risk Screenings
Maternity Management Risk Screenings identify women at risk for costly pregnancy outcomes through risk assessment and pregnancy monitoring. Identification of risk allows for early intervention and improvement of pregnancy outcomes. Through assessment and monitoring for pregnancy complications and medical conditions, Alere’s clinicians may identify possible problems early enough to reduce expensive prenatal hospitalizations and costs associated with complications in pregnancy.
Why the Maternity Management Program?
- Identification of risk allows for early intervention.Experience with over 200 managed care plans
- Dramatic maternity cost savings based on neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) days per 1,000 births, as demonstrated by outcomes-based performance on more than 250,000 patients
- Data on clinical outcomes:
- Preterm birth rate
- Preterm births beyond 35 weeks
- Low birth weight rate
- Data on key cost drivers:
- NICU admission rate
- NICU average length of stay
- NICU days per 1,000 births
- Our infrastructure:
- Staff
- Systems
- Data repository
- Quality management
- Our marketing support:
- Field sales force
- Camera-ready artwork for internal marketing
View the Maternity Management Program Overview for a more complete overview of the program.
Study Links Health
and Productivity
Health-related productivity losses combined with direct medical spending were found to cost $4 to every $1 of direct medical expenses in the study “Health and Productivity as a Business Strategy,” published in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM). Learn more.
What’s Driving Participation in HRAs?
According to a study published in August 2008, the top factors are the monetary value of incentives, strong, effective communications and organizational commitment. The study, “Incentives and Other Factors Associated with Employee Participation in Health Risk Assessments,” was published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.