Dr. Scott P. Smith

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  www.addisonindependent.com/node/1624 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/20/2008    Last Visited: 10/21/2008  

  CHSAC was able to honor that request after the organization's medical director, Dr. Scott Smith, asked Bicknell whether the Little City Family Practice could host.

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  store.hin.com/Modifying-Patients-Behaviors-to-Optimize- - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/23/2007    Last Visited: 10/23/2007  

  You'll hear from Richard Citrin, former vice president of health and productivity at Corphealth Inc., Gregg Lehman, former president and CEO, Gordian Health Solutions, Michael Montijo, MD, MPH, FACP, senior vice president, government relations at American Healthways, Fred Navarro, president and founder, PATH Institute, Scott Smith, MD, vice president and chief medical officer, First Health and Sean Sullivan, president and CEO, Institute for Health and Productivity Management on theories, application and results of behavior modification and patient engagement strategies.
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  This 60-page report is based on the July 28, 2004 audio conference "The Role of Behavior Modification in Disease Management: How You Can Maximize your Program's Effectiveness" and the November 3, 2004 audio conference "Patient Engagement Strategies in Disease Management" during which Citrin, Lehman, Montijo, Navarro, Smith and Sullivan described which strategies healthcare organizations are using to modify behaviors to increase the effectiveness of disease management programs and strategies that are most successful at engaging members in disease management programs.

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  www.gordian-health.com/news-media-archive.php - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 3/14/2007  

  You'll hear from Richard Citrin, Vice President of Health and Productivity at Corphealth Inc., Gregg Lehman, President and CEO, Gordian Health Solutions, Michael Montijo, MD, MPH, FACP, Senior Vice President, Government Relations at American Healthways, Fred Navarro, President and Founder, PATH Institute, Scott Smith, MD, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, First Health and Sean Sullivan, President and CEO, Institute for Health and Productivity Management on theories, application and results of behavior modification and patient engagement strategies.

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  2001_04 | PPO Performance Hard To Gauge; Comparisons... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/1/2001    Last Visited: 2/9/2002  

  Scott Smith, M.D., vice president for clinical management services and national medical director for First Health Group, an Illinois-based company that provides employers with group health and workers' compensation benefits, agreed that PPO performance must be measured by different yardsticks than existing HMO assessment tools.
  
  "PPOs should be accountable for performance related to those functions, services, and outcomes over which they have direct control or substantial influence.This means establishing indicators that are specific and unique -- and not simply 'HMO-lite.'"
  
  Smith said network maintenance, service, and outcomes can and should be measured."Outcomes should be evaluated for consistency; clinical validity; regulatory compliance; client, provider, and member satisfaction; and patient-centered results," he explained.
  
  Unique delivery system
  
  The bottom line, according to Smith; "A PPO-based plan is a unique form of managed health care delivery.In fact, each PPO-based plan may be unique.Performance measurement, therefore, should be crafted from the ground up, and commonalties derived rather than imposed."
  
  That's what URAC concludes as well -- though with a slight twist.
  
  Accountability should be based on function within the health system.

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  2001_07 | Disease Management Uses Web To Net Savings - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/1/2001    Last Visited: 8/1/2001  

  First Health of Downers Grove , Ill. , offers electronic office visits to members enrolled in DM programs , says the company's national medical director , Scott Smith , M.D. , M.P.H..
  
  Patients and physicians must already know one another , and the patient must initiate the e-mail.The physician is reimbursed $25.A typical exchange might involve a diabetic asking his physician how to better treat a foot ulcer.
  
  With two other institutions , East Carolina University in Greenville , N.C. , studied 10 women who suffered from pregnancy-induced hypertension.Physicians' worst fear then becomes premature delivery that saddles the baby with continuing , expensive ailments.Often , patients with this disorder are admitted to the hospital from the time of diagnosis until delivery -- an extremely expensive proposition.
  
  In one trial , the women were ordered to take bed rest in their own homes.A computer was placed in the home enabling a video visit with a nurse several times a week.

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  2001_07 | Disease Management Uses Web To Net Savings - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/2/2004    Last Visited: 11/2/2004  

  First Health of Downers Grove, Ill., offers electronic office visits to members enrolled in DM programs, says the company's national medical director, Scott Smith, M.D., M.P.H.

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  ACP-ASIM Observer - Is there a doctor online? - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/11/2001    Last Visited: 4/23/2003  

  First Health pays its network doctors $25 per "e-visit" with their chronically ill patients, explained Scott P. Smith, FACP, national medical director for First Health.
  
  The network does not review these "e-visit" claims for appropriateness, Dr. Smith said."If the doctor says it's a visit, it's a visit," he said.

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  ACP-ASIM Observer - Is there a doctor online? - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/19/2001    Last Visited: 10/10/2001  

  First Health pays its network doctors $25 per e-visit with their chronically ill patients , explained Scott P. Smith , FACP , national medical director for First Health.
  
  The network does not review these e-visit claims for appropriateness , Dr. Smith said.If the doctor says it's a visit , it's a visit , he said.
  
  The various models being used to pay physicians underscore payers' ambivalence toward their yet-unproven results.

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  ADVANCE for Physician Assistants Online | Past Online... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/6/2001    Last Visited: 8/6/2001  

  We've found that patients often ask more questions and explain their problems more clearly in a well-thought-out e-mail communication than in what can often be a hurried phone call ... or a face-to-face consultation , said First Health's national medical director , Scott P. Smith , MD , in a statement.Patient-provider e-mail , he said , is not only a practical extension ( of a client's benefit plan ) , but cost-effective and convenient..
  
  Will other insurers follow suit and reimburse for e-time.If the AMA has its way , they will ( for physicians , anyway ).In July , American Medical News reported that AMA delegates had passed a resolution that physicians deserve a fair fee for patient services whether the current consultation service is rendered by telephone , fax , electronic mail or another form of communication..The AMA further vowed to press insurers , including the Health Care Financing Administration , to recognize supplemental communication , not as bundled services , or to have such services recognized as not covered by Medicare..Currently , HCFA bundles telephone calls in with other service codes.The AMA is doing its best to ensure the same doesn't happen with e-mail.

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