FIRM

At its Annual Forum this year the Managed Care Executive Group announced the 2008 Top Ten issues impacting the managed healthcare industry.  Issue #6 includes the following core statement:

“Prior authorization and utilization reviews are fading, and in their place is a more collaborative model based on access, quality, safety, effectiveness and patient centeredness.”
 
Peak’s founding philosophy has recently been in search of a new collaborative model by which at-risk population health status can be improved, and low-risk population health status preserved.  Paradigm’s Healthy AIM health risk assessment and intervention services that were initially prioritized for serving these populations have traditionally operated mostly independent of the healthcare delivery system as a consumer-direct service.  FIRM, a fully confidential, clinically-proven wellness program, is now offered to at-risk persons whose health status is not being proactively addressed by existing Health Benefit Plan services such as disease and case management.  FIRM offers a combination of online and telephone resources that focus on restoring and preserving good health through these key components: