NEWSLETTER FALL 2014

WELCOME PAM HUFFMAN

Pam Huffman has joined our company as Executive Vice President over our home care and hospice divisions.  Pam comes to us from Amedisys where she has been in senior management for 26 years.  Most recently, Pam has been running the state of Florida for Amedisys and prior to that managed most of the state of Georgia.   I am personally very excited to bring someone with decades of home care experience to our company and know she will do a phenomenal job helping us continue to improve.  Please give us a few weeks to get Pam acclimated but expect her to be in your regions very quickly.I know you all join me in INSIDE THE ISSUE:

WELCOME Pam Huffman

CAREQUICKRibbon Cutting

welcoming Pam to our company and will do all that you can to help her continue to make our company a better place to work.  In a very challenging environment for home care/hospice companies, we will continue to seek out the best people in our industry to help us tackle all of the issues of the day and wholeheartedly believe Pam will be a tremendous asset and resource to the entire organization.

-Abb Payne, President and CEO

A Note from PAM HUFFMAN First off, I want to thank everyone for such a warm welcome given to me during these first two weeks of employment with Camellia.  I truly appreciate all the support and assistance provided to me.  There is much to learn on my end and it will take some time to become acclimated .  I will say this, with the positive attitudes and the motivation exhibited, Camellia will continue to grow and provide the ultimate and most efficient care to our patients. Remember always, that is why we are here........ Our patients.  Thank you all for what you do every day.

-Pam Huffman

DON’TFORGETYour CoworkersBirthdays!

A NOTEFrom Pam Huffman

Chattanooga, TN, Home Health celbrated one year of excellence with a a pool

party

NEWSLETTER FALL 2014

For submissions to the newsletter email tomcgee@camellia.com. In the subject line, put NEWSLETTER and specifically what you are sending. Thank you.

1.  Everyone should have received a new card showing CAREMARK/CVS as the new pharmacy benefit manager.  If your pharmacist tells you that your insurance benefits were termed July 30, then they are still using the old card.  Make sure the pharmacy knows you are now on Caremark/CVS.

2.  With the new pharmacy plan, ALL compounded medications require prior-authorization.  That does not mean the compound won’t be covered.  But it does mean your physician’s office has to call for prior approval before prescribing the medication.  It is a fairly simple process:   The prescribing doctor will need to contact the Caremark Prior Authorization phone number: 1-800-294-5979. 3.  With the new pharmacy plan, ADD medications are only covered for participants under age 19.  Again, this doesn’t mean your medication won’t be covered.  It just means you need to take an extra step and have your physician’s office call for prior authorization.   Again, the prescribing physician will need to call 1-800-294-5979.

Pharmacy BenefitsReminder:

CareQuick RibbonCutting

Camellia Healthcare is proud to present CareQuick Urgent Care. CareQuick had their ribbon-cutting ceremony August 27th, 2014. The Area Development Partnership (ADP) came and gave CareQuick a warm welcome to the Hattiesburg community. The ADP representatives took a tour of the facility and were truly astonished. “This facility is so great! It’s definitely not your average clinic,” said Haley White, ADP Membership Coordinator.

Wade Wicht, Executive Director of CareQuick, thanked Camellia for the hard work and dedication that went in to opening the clinic. Abb Payne, President and CEO, also gave thanks for all of the hard work from Camellia Healthcare that went making CareQuick a possibility.

The Home Helath Coding Team attended a Blueprint

for OASIS Accuracy Workshop in September