Classes and prevention programs are also available, along with a mobile mammogram unit. Once initiatives of this sort have been approved at the highest corporate level, according to the WBGH's Goff, health plans under contract to the company may be judged by their contribution to the programs' success. So we have to do it ourselves and leave the follow-up to our managed care plans. Part of the problem is that managed care does not look at the woman over a lifetime. It doesn't have the same commitment to a social cause that we have.
Fuller likens the osteoporosis scan to a lipid profile.
This has come up. This is the foundation, the cake, if you will. I think of the women's initiatives as the icing on the cake. This is really about the health of the whole family. There could be useful tips in it for health plans, too.