RxAmerica Introduces RxInsider, A Revolutionary New Decision Support Technology for the Health Care Industry

November 20, 2001 - SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - RxAmerica, a full-service provider of prescription benefit management services (PBM), has introduced RxInsider, an innovative new reporting tool that gives health plan administrators the information tools to make the critical decisions that are key to their success.

RxInsider provides a real-time, web-deployed health care data analysis tool that allows plan administrators to identify opportunities to improve patient care, understand and control costs, improve quality, and streamline business processes.

RxInsider was designed for administrators by administrators. By blending health care business intelligence with innovative technology, this unparalleled analysis tool can initiate change through informed decision-making. RxInsider provides administrators true ad hoc interactivity (i.e., letting the customer modify existing reports by adding additional data fields or create new reports based on any of the data fields) in an extremely user-friendly application that non-technical staff can use to perform sophisticated data joins and summarized calculations on the fly with no IT resources involvement.

"How is RxInsider different than the reporting system most plan administrators use today?" asks Jean Rolando, VP of Operations and Information Systems for RxAmerica. "The difference is that RxInsider goes beyond typical drill-down functionality and provides actual analytical processing that allows you to pull additional data into a data view as needed. Having access to ALL the data provides the opportunity to look at the information from all angles and to perform deeper analysis. This kind of analysis changes the way people do business, to a more proactive approach to health care management."

One unparalleled feature of RxInsider is the ability to integrate other health plan produced and controlled information with the pharmacy claim record.

"Having the ability to combine other health plan information, such as medical diagnosis, medical group info, primary care physician info, etc., in the same system as the prescription information, health care administrators can make decisions with a more complete picture of all the health care issues of its members," says John Gardynik, President of RxAmerica. "This tool will allow our customers to make more informed decisions, which will improve the overall quality of the health care for their members and enable plan sponsors to control costs at the same time."

An example of this is to look at one group of members that are potentially at risk for a specific disease. "Post menopausal women, over the age of 50, have an increased risk of bone fractures due to osteoporosis. This risk can be substantially minimized with hormone replacement therapy and calcium supplementation", explains Chris Jensen, Director of Clinical Services for RxAmerica. "RxInsider would allow you to create a report of all women over fifty who are not taking one of these agents, and then the plan administrator could educate the women's doctors or the women themselves about the need for hormone replacement therapy and calcium supplement." This preventative measure could prevent the member from experiencing a painful broken bone and at the same time save the plan the cost of any injuries.

The real-time delivery mechanism and the drill-down functionality within RxInsider provide the right information to the right person at the right time, which leads to improvement opportunities. This is the analysis that changes the way health care is managed. The Result: Improved quality of care and cost reduction through state-of-the-art data analysis.

RxAmerica is a full-service pharmacy benefits manager that provides prescription drug benefits for more than 4.5 million individuals nationwide. With a retail network of more than 53,000 pharmacies, RxAmerica delivers innovative prescription drug programs that improve the health of members while lowering drug benefit costs for its clients.

For further information on RxInsider or RxAmerica, call 1-800-770-8014 or visit RxAmerica's website at www.rxamerica.com.