McKesson Corporation is the leading provider of supply, information, and care management products and services designed to reduce costs and improve quality across healthcare. Founded in 1833, with annual revenues of more than US$50 billion, McKesson ranks as the 31st largest industrial company in the in the United States. Through its Health Solutions business unit, McKesson offers a comprehensive suite of medical management products and services to help providers and payors better manage the cost and quality of care. Its CareEnhance^SM solutions include InterQual^® clinical appropriateness criteria, outsourced disease management and nurse triage services, and software tools that support organizations' clinical workflow, analysis, and reporting processes, including HEDIS^®.

About CareEnhance Disease Management

McKesson's population-based CareEnhance Disease Management services combine the best of personalized nurse counseling with advanced analytic tools and Web support to help you meet your clinical, financial, operational, and accreditation goals. With a rapidly growing number of asthma, diabetes, heart failure and CAD risk factor referrals being actively managed or co-managed across multiple conditions, you benefit from superior systems and accurate tracking and measurement tools with proven results.

The Disease Management Program is designed to provide patient education and self-management, paired with a patient's willingness and readiness to change his or her lifestyle. This process is facilitated through an understanding of the member's chronic condition. McKesson's disease management nurses proactively educate the program participants about self-management skills and behavior changes needed to reduce their healthcare risks.

The program is designed to collaboratively work with practitioners to reinforce and support program objectives. McKesson has developed a physician relations and communication program that facilitates practitioner understanding of the program, as well as ensuring consistent and thorough communication with the practitioner throughout the duration of his or her patient's involvement in the program.

McKesson does not advertise, market, or promote specific products or services to a member or practitioner when discussing a patient's health condition. The provision of any pharmaceutical drugs, medical devices or educational materials to members shall not be construed as marketing or advertising by the manufacturers.