Milliman Care Guidelines presents Doyle Award to ADVANTAGE Health Solutions and Sound Physicians

Apr 5 2011

Milliman Care Guidelines today presented its Doyle Award for Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare to ADVANTAGE Health Solutions, Inc.(SM) and to Sound Physicians.   The awards were presented in ceremonies here at the Milliman Care Guidelines Client Forum.

ADVANTAGE Health Solutions, Inc.(SM) a regional health plan in Indiana, won the Doyle Award health plan category.  The company used Milliman Care Guidelines products in an innovative case management program providing managed care solutions that improve patient outcomes, keep costs low, and improve the health and wellness of the communities it serves.  

The program reduced readmissions, improved member satisfaction, and improved staff efficiency and productivity for its Commercial line of business.  It also significantly reduced bed days and emergency room visits among those members actively enrolled in the case management program.

Sound Physicians, a national hospitalist service organization, won the Doyle Award healthcare provider category.  With approximately 500 physicians working at more than 45 hospitals around the country, Sound Physicians used the Care Guidelines as a key component to support its High-Impact Diagnoses Initiative.  

The High-Impact Diagnoses Initiative uses evidence-based best-practice guidelines at the bedside for patients with diagnoses where quality, cost and volume intersect, such as pneumonia, sepsis, congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and urinary tract infection.  The Care Guidelines-backed High-Impact Diagnoses Initiative has decreased hospital length of stay, reduced direct cost per case, reduced practice variability, and improved the accuracy of clinical documentation for targeted diagnoses, all leading to improved quality, financial performance and clinical efficiency.

"We're proud to recognize the healthcare improvements created by Milliman Care Guidelines clients such as ADVANTAGE Health Solutions and Sound Physicians," said James M. Schibanoff, MD, Editor-in-Chief of the Care Guidelines.  

Anthony Akosa, MD, MBA, Vice President of Medical Affairs, accepted the award for ADVANTAGE Health Solutions, while Marina Farah, MD, MHA, Medical Director of Clinical Operations, and Kristi Frantz, MSS, Senior Director of Clinical Operations, accepted the award for Sound Physicians.