Effective management of health care services demonstrated by
compliance with rigorous health care standards
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- (Business Wire)
Health
Net Federal Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Health
Net, Inc., announced today it has been awarded full reaccreditations
for health utilization management V7.0 and case management V5.0 from
URAC, a health care accrediting organization that establishes quality
standards for the health care industry.
“Health Net’s compliance with URAC’s rigorous utilization and case
management standards demonstrates our commitment to clinically sound
review processes to help ensure appropriate and efficient health care
services are delivered and promote the quality care our beneficiaries
deserve,” said Thomas Carrato, president of Health Net Federal Services.
Health Net Federal Services’ URAC health utilization management and case
management reaccreditations are now effective through December 1, 2016.
Health Net has held URAC’s health utilization management and case
management accreditations since December 2005.
“Health Net Federal Services should be commended for meeting strict
quality standards,” said URAC President and CEO Kylanne Green. “It is
critically important for healthcare organizations to make a commitment
to quality and accountability. URAC accreditation is a demonstration of
that commitment.”
About URAC
URAC is a leader in promoting healthcare quality through its
accreditation, education, and measurement programs. URAC offers a wide
range of quality benchmarking programs and services that model the rapid
changes in the healthcare system and provide a symbol of excellence for
organizations to validate their commitment to quality and
accountability. For more information, visit www.urac.org.
About Health Net Federal Services
Health
Net Federal Services has a long history of providing cost-effective,
quality managed health care programs for government agencies, including
the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. As the managed care
support contractor for the TRICARE North Region, Health Net provides
health care services to approximately 2.8 million uniformed services
beneficiaries, active and retired, and their families. In addition,
Health Net provides high quality, cost-effective health care solutions
for veterans, as well as behavioral health services for active duty
service members, veterans and their families.
Additionally, Health Net Federal Services administers the Department of
Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Patient-Centered Community Care (PCCC) program in
three of six regions across the United States (regions 1, 2 and 4),
which includes all or portions of 37 states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The PCCC program provides
eligible veterans access to health care through a comprehensive network
of community-based, non-VA medical professionals who meet VA quality
standards when VA supplements care outside its own facilities. The
program augments the VA’s ability to provide specialty inpatient and
outpatient health care services, as well as behavioral health care,
limited emergency care and newborn care services to enrolled veterans.
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for more information.
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 5.9 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.
Media Contact:
Brad Kieffer
(818)
676-6833
brad.kieffer@healthnet.com
Source: Health Net Federal Services, LLC
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