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LOS ANGELES -- (Business Wire)
Health
Net, Inc. announces it launched new palliative care programs in
California and Oregon. They follow a successful palliative care program
Health Net established in Arizona.
Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious
illness. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms,
pain and stress of a serious illness, no matter the diagnosis.
Palliative care providers work closely with a patient’s other providers,
delivering treatment concurrently with disease-directed therapies.
“We are encouraged by the outcomes we saw from our work with Arizona
Palliative Home Care,” said Marvin Gordon M.D., regional medical
director for Health Net of California. “Patients in this program
experienced improved quality of life, fewer emergency room visits and
fewer days in the hospital.”
Health Net’s new palliative care programs are:
“Palliative care helps to address the challenges that exist when cost
meets quality,” said Gordon. “We believe this approach can help improve
the way our health system identifies and delivers care that's needed.”
Health Net’s new palliative care programs in California and Oregon
launched on January 1, 2015.
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About Health Net
Health
Net, Inc. (NYSE: HNT) is a publicly traded managed care organization
that delivers managed health care services through health plans and
government-sponsored managed care plans. Its mission is to help people
be healthy, secure and comfortable. Health Net provides and administers
health benefits to approximately 6.0 million individuals across the
country through group, individual, Medicare (including the Medicare
prescription drug benefit commonly referred to as “Part D”), Medicaid,
U.S. Department of Defense, including TRICARE, and Veterans Affairs
programs. Health Net also offers behavioral health, substance abuse and
employee assistance programs, managed health care products related to
prescription drugs, managed health care product coordination for
multi-region employers, and administrative services for medical groups
and self-funded benefits programs.
For more information on Health Net, Inc., please visit Health Net’s
website at www.healthnet.com.
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Contacts:
Health Net, Inc.
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Source: Health Net, Inc.
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