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McKesson Clear Coverage™ Appraised at CMMI Level 3NEWTON, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- Today McKesson Health Solutions announced that the Clear Coverage™ platform has been reappraised at Level 3 of the CMMI Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), a process improvement training and appraisal program administered by Carnegie Mellon University. "McKesson's long-standing commitment to quality for our customers is reflected in this achievement," says Mike Wood, Senior Vice President, CIO/CTO at McKesson Health Solutions. "Attaining CMMI Level 3 reaffirms the Clear Coverage team's dedication to defined development processes that help reduce risk, sustain high quality and support continuous process improvement for our customers." CMMI is a proven approach to performance management that provides guidance for efficient, effective improvement across multiple process disciplines in an organization with an integrated vision of improvement. Implementing this approach can lead to decreased costs and help ensure on-time delivery, higher productivity, superior quality and higher customer satisfaction. A CMMI Level 3 appraisal means an organization has chieved all the specific and generic goals of the process areas assigned to maturity levels 2 and 3. At maturity level 3, the organization is performing at a "defined" level, meaning processes are well characterized and understood and are described in standards, procedures, tools and methods. Healthcare's increasing alignment with value-based reimbursement models is making the authorization process more challenging than ever before. Administrative complexity is driving up costs, coverage determination is taking longer, network compliance is more difficult and most importantly, providers and patients do not understand coverage, network choices, and financial responsibility before care is rendered. Clear Coverage helps quickly solve these problems. As a point-of-care utilization management, coverage determination and network compliance SaaS (News - Alert) platform, Clear Coverage uses InterQual® Criteria to create an automated workflow that connects payers and providers to automate real-time clinical and financial decision-making. For payers, Clear Coverage helps:
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Total Payment™ Platform Attains CMMI Level 3 Appraisal About McKesson McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 15th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to making the business of healthcare run better. McKesson partners with payers, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting. McKesson helps its customers improve their financial, operational, and clinical performance with solutions that include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management, healthcare information technology, and business and clinical services. For more information, visit www.mckesson.com.
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