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Become a Healthier You – Stop Smoking Today
Aug 4th
The Last Cigarette (TLC)
Stopping smoking can add an additional 13 to 14 years to your life. But quitting can be hard. That’s why Anthem Blue Cross is offering TLC: The Last Cigarette; a free quit kit designed to help California residents stop smoking. The TLC quit kit includes a variety of smoking cessation tools for people who are contemplating quitting or are ready to quit.
Visit the TLC website to access the following resources:
- Quit Wizard (tool to help formulate a quit plan)
- Type Quiz (What kind of smoker are you?)
- Smoking cost calculator
- Supportive e-cards
- An interactive quitting calendar
- Stress management information and information on fighting cravings
- Resources
- An opportunity to order free Quit Kits
Just go to http://www.tlc4ya.com/ to order your free quit kit and take your first step to becoming a healthier you today!
Anthem Blue Cross Announces Initiative To Prevent Serious Medical Errors
Apr 14th
April 2, 2008 – Anthem Blue Cross announced today process changes for its hospital network to be implemented this year. The changes will include reimbursement modifications and are aimed at eliminating preventable adverse events as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Quality Forum. They will help protect Anthem Blue Cross’s eight million members from additional payments resulting from these errors.
“Anthem’s primary focus will be to ensure that physicians and hospitals are using appropriate processes, technologies and strategies to address ‘never events’ and, ultimately, to enhance the quality of care delivered to hospitalized patients,” said Dr. Zeinab Dabbah, Chief Medical Officer of Anthem Blue Cross. “We will continue to work collaboratively with physicians and hospitals to analyze why and how these events occur, and to proactively find ways to improve patient safety and clinical care.”
Anthem’s first phase of the initiative includes 11 preventable adverse events and will be modified and expanded in the future. Anthem recently communicated to its network hospitals about its policy intended to ensure that no one will be charged if any of the following three events occur:
• Surgery performed on the wrong body part; • Surgery performed on the wrong patient; More >
Anthem Blue Cross Launches Zagat Survey Tool In Los Angeles
Jan 8th
Members to Use Survey to Rate Physician Experiences
Blue Cross of California (Blue Cross) today announced the launch of the Zagat Survey tool, a new online survey tool that will allow consumers to share their physician experiences with others in the Los Angeles market.
The survey tool is now available to members enrolled in the company’s Lumenos consumer driven health plans and will be available to all members the Los Angeles area at the end of the first quarter of 2008. Blue Cross will continue to progressively introduce this tool across all of California.
“Zagat is widely known and trusted for its ability to help people share and learn from other consumer experiences. By working with them we are able to create a trusted resource for consumers and actively engage consumers in sharing and using that information,” said Brian A. Sassi, president of Blue Cross of California. “Consumer experience information, such as that enabled by the Zagat Survey tool, complements our other tools and resources that make clinical quality and cost transparent for consumers.”
Through its relationship with Zagat, Blue Cross is helping address an unmet need for peer-to-peer interaction among health care consumers. The new survey tool will provide a vehicle for members More >