INDIANAPOLIS, May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WellPoint, Inc. today announced that its pharmacy benefit management company (PBM), WellPoint NextRx, won First Place for "Best Web site for Consumer Health Education Information and Programs," at the Fourth Annual Consumer Directed Health Care (CDHC) Awards, co-located with the National Health, Wellness and Prevention Congress in San Francisco earlier this month. The award recognized WellPoint NextRx's dynamic, Web-based member education platform called HealthEnvelope(TM).
The CDHC Awards recognizes excellence and advancement in services, products, and programs that enhance the consumer's ability to manage their healthcare expenditures and enhance healthcare quality. Product development and marketing companies, not for profit organizations, government agencies and academic institutions were invited to submit entries which were judged on specific criteria by an independent panel of industry leaders.
"This prestigious award exemplifies our ability to provide physicians and members with access to the tools and resources needed to help improve service and quality of care," said Ren Elder, president of WellPoint NextRx.
HealthEnvelope is a dynamic Web-based application that offers valuable therapy and lifestyle management tools to help simplify and promote effective management of particular conditions such as asthma, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The unique application facilitates personalized health education by integrating medical, pharmacy and member self reported data, within its integrated care data platform, to help identify risk to the member and drive them to targeted education pieces that will improve their overall health. HealthEnvelope is also designed to do this securely to ensure member privacy.
Made available in 2004, HealthEnvelope was implemented through a number of WellPoint NextRx clients. In addition, it has been implemented as the online disease management intervention for all our Medicare members that qualify for our Medication Therapy Management Program. HealthEnvelope is also a URAC and HON accredited website.
WellPoint NextRx provides innovative programs to manage drug spend and clinical programs that are outcomes focused and patient-centric. HealthEnvelope is part of a full spectrum of PBM services such as clinical/medical management, consultative services, claims processing, network management, formulary management, mail order services and online tools and resources.
About WellPoint, Inc.
WellPoint's mission is to improve the lives of the people it serves and the health of its communities. WellPoint, Inc. is the largest health benefits company in terms of commercial membership in the United States. Through its nationwide networks, the company delivers a number of leading health benefit solutions through a broad portfolio of integrated health care plans and related services, along with a wide range of specialty products such as life and disability insurance benefits, pharmacy benefit management, dental, vision, behavioral health benefit services, as well as long term care insurance and flexible spending accounts. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, WellPoint is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and serves its members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (as Blue Cross Blue Shield in 10 New York City metropolitan and surrounding counties and as Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield in selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), Wisconsin; and through UniCare. Additional information about WellPoint is available at http://www.wellpoint.com/.
