For example, relative to their population, an analysis of data from 1994 found that adolescents overutilized and improperly used emergency room services, while underutilizing office-based services. We held a Strategic Planning Meeting in March 1999 to identify promising approaches to enhancing the delivery of health care services to teens enrolled in managed care plans. The Forum will provide these leaders with the opportunity to discuss the challenges to providing health care services to teens and successful models for addressing these challenges. Now's Adolescent Health and Managed Care project is led by Senior Health Policy Associate Jessica Reich. The Washington Post Charles Wibbelsman , MD Director The San Francisco Teenage Clinic, The Permanente Medical Group.
Participation is by invitation only.
Check back in August 2000 for a copy of the agenda.