Thursday, July 21, 2005

Less than 1 percent of health plan members are diagnosed with alcohol use disorders AMA press release reprinted at EurekAlert, based on the 2005 eValue8 RFI Initiative, which captures voluntarily reported data from more than 250 health plans nationwide - "Less than 1 percent of health plan members are actually diagnosed with alcoholism or related disorders, according to data from a national performance measurement project released today in New York City at the American Medical Association Media Briefing, Alcohol Dependence: From Science to Solutions. Based on general population rates, health plans should be diagnosing at least four or five times as many members with alcohol problems."