Crescent Healthcare's focus is on optimizing economic and clinical outcomes for payers by moving patients out of hospitals into alternate settings. We manage this through our comprehensive integration of pharmacy and nursing services.

Crescent recognizes that the central issue facing payers is reducing medical costs while improving the quality of clinical outcomes and maintaining a high level of patient satisfaction. To help payers meet these goals, Crescent provides the following value-added services:

Ambulatory Infusion Centers: Crescent's AICs are co-located with our pharmacies and offer another alternate site for infusion patients. Our AIC program can help reduce the nursing costs required to deliver therapy by 50% while maintaining our high standards of patient care.

Disease State Management Programs: Our programs are centered on the criteria that will yield both positive clinical and economic outcomes. We have programs tailored for both acute and chronic therapies.

Hospital Bed-Day Reduction Programs: Crescent helps reduce hospital days by minimizing unnecessary initial admissions and by decreasing the length of stay for those patients requiring hospitalization.

Utilization Review and Quality Management: Crescent's quarterly feedback can be customized to meet payers' needs. Typical analyses include cost per diagnosis group, cost per therapy type, and physician practice patterns. Crescent can meet with the payer to analyze data to improve future financial results.

To inquire further about our economic and clinical outcomes programs, please contact the Vice President of Managed Care at 800-879-4844 ext. 6306.