Can't you recognize an audience full of PR Coalition members when you see one?
The phone bank is the latest step in the 240,000-member Coalition's national grassroots Medicare strategy. Earlier this year, more than 100 Coalition members came to Washington to rally on behalf of preserving choice in Medicare. During the August recess, the Coalition launched a comprehensive contact campaign that has generated a sustained volume of personal, informed grassroots communications to key lawmakers. Coalition members attended town- hall meetings and district-office meetings during the recess and have continued to write and call their representatives throughout September and October.
"From day one we've worked to activate grassroots seniors because they know first-hand that private-sector Medicare is the right choice for millions of Americans," said Karen Ignagni, President and CEO of AAHP/HIAA. "With Congress nearing the end of its session, now is the time for our grassroots coalition to help push Medicare reform across the finish line," Ignagni said.
http://news.corporate.findlaw.com/prnewswire/20031021/21oct2003160621.htmlKaren Ignagni is president and CEO of the American Association of Health Plans, a trade association representing HMOs, PPOs, and other managed care plans.
AAHP is the largest national trade organization representing more than 1,000 health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs), and other similar health plans that provide health care coverage for more than 140 million Americans.
And these are the people who will rat you out every time you go to the doctor.
Immediately following the anthrax incidents, AAHP began working with CDC and several of its member health plans, including lead research partner Harvard Pilgrim Health Care; HealthPartners Research Foundation; Kaiser Permanente of Colorado; and UnitedHealth Care's nurse call center, Optum; to launch a national bioterrorism syndromic surveillance demonstration program that collects, analyzes and reports real-time data on certain respiratory, gastrointestinal and other symptoms.
Funded through a $1.2 million CDC grant, the program includes a rapid response capability that can identify geographically based spikes in symptoms or illnesses, notify appropriate public health officials, and, if necessary, enable public health officials to obtain detailed clinical information. The program maintains patient confidentiality and is consistent with the protections of the HIPAA privacy rule.
The pilot program is designed to capitalize on the fact that health plan members who are experiencing symptoms very often turn to their health plan first. Diagnoses recorded during office visits and nurse call centers, may provide important information on disease outbreaks before their occurrence is detected through a rash of emergency room visits or hospitalizations. “This partnership is vital because if bioterrorists strike one thing is certain: every moment counts,” said Ignagni.
http://www.aahp.org/Content/NavigationMenu/About_AAHP/News_Room/Press_Releases/Health_Plans_Making_Critical_Contribution_to_Homeland_Security_(5_5_2003).htm
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