Software tool focuses on immediate needs.

Software tool focuses on immediate needs

Program targets fee-for-service members

As part of a program targeting at-risk Medicaid fee-for service members, case managers at Hudson Health Plan are using a software tool that helps them focus in on the needs of their clients they should address first.

The Westchester Cares Action Program is being funded through a three-year grant program with the New York State Department of Health and targets 250 of the highest-risk, highest-need individuals enrolled in Medicaid fee-for-service in Westchester County.

The program involves Hudson case managers beta-testing the InterMed Complex Assessment Grid, a tool which was developed and used successfully in Europe, according to Margaret Leonard, MS, RN-BC, FNP, senior vice president for clinical services at Hudson Health Plan with …