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Best Practices
EPA's National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) annual National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management recognizes health insurance plans and providers for their leadership in addressing management of environmental triggers as part of their comprehensive asthma management programs.
Award recipients of the 2008 Award for the health insurance plan and healthcare providers are:
- Monroe Plan for Medical Care (Monroe Plan)
- Asthma Network of West Michigan (ANWM)
- University of Michigan Health System (UMHS)
The National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management is open to all health insurance plans and health care providers that offer comprehensive asthma management programs and tools to assist individuals with asthma in living a healthy and active life. Asthma management programs must be consistent with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NHLBI guidelines for diagnosis and management of asthma. Health plans and health care providers who have demonstrated leadership on helping people with asthma to manage environmental triggers as part of their comprehensive asthma care program are encouraged to apply.
For more information about the EPA's National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management, please access www.asthmaawards.info.
Past health insurance plan awardees have been:
- 2007: Priority Health of Michigan (PDF)
- 2006: Blue Cross of California, State Sponsored Business Unit
- 2005: Optima Health, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Past healthcare provider awardees have been:
- 2007: MaineHealth AH! Program (PDF)
- 2006: Improving Pediatric Asthma Care in the District of Columbia (IMPACT DC)
- 2005: Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri
National Asthma Forum May 1-2, 2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be holding the 2008 Communities in Acton for Asthma-Friendly Environments National Asthma Forum on May 1-2, 2008, in Washington, D.C.
The National Asthma Forum is an opportunity for professionals involved in community-based asthma programs to join asthma leaders from across the nation to share best practices and discuss effective strategies to lead the nation in quality asthma care. Those who attend will be able to engage with peers around critical issues related to program successes, share approaches to benchmarking outcomes, accelerating results, and building program sustainability and develop effective strategies in critical elements of asthma management.
The EPA will also recognize award recipients of the 2008 EPA National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management. This prestigious award recognizes health insurance plans and providers for their leadership in addressing management of environmental triggers as part of their comprehensive asthma management programs.
For more information about the Forum and to register, please visit www.epaasthmaforum.com. You may also find more information on health plan best practices, resources and tools at AHIP’s Taking on Asthma web site at: www.takingonasthma.org.
Breathing Easier…(AHIP Coverage, May/June 2007)
Health plans are taking a more aggressive approach to managing asthma care. Featured in AHIP’s Coverage magazine, May/June 2007 edition, this article highlights four health plans from across the country that have developed multiple strategies for working with enrollees, physicians, pharmacists, and community health centers to improve asthma care. It also features the results of AHIP’s 2006 assessment of health plan approaches to asthma care management. For more information, click here.
“Effective Strategies to Improve Asthma Care through Environmental Interventions” Audio Call
With funding support from the U.S. EPA, AHIP's December 5, 2006 audio conference examines the latest research and scope of effective strategies and tools health insurance plans use to manage asthma care, such as reducing or controlling exposure to environmental triggers through home-based interventions.
To access the presentation slides and recording of this audio conference on AHIP TV, please click here.
Grant for Innovation in Asthma Care
From 2003-2005 AHIP sponsored the Grant for Innovation in Asthma Care, which was supported through a cooperative agreement with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). This grant was designed to support one member health insurance plan in its commitment to provide an asthma program that integrates the management of environmental risk factors into asthma care management programs. The grant recipient received a $30,000 grant to implement a one-year, innovative project to address environmental risk factors in asthma care.
Past awardees were:
National Exemplary Practice Asthma Awards
AHIP developed the National Exemplary Practice Asthma Award to recognize communities that successfully deliver quality asthma care. The goal of the award program is to encourage the rapid adoption or adaptation of innovative ideas and approaches to chronic care delivery throughout the managed care industry and is open to comprehensive, community-based asthma programs which embody the key drivers of asthma program effectiveness and demonstrate program success.
Past awardees were:
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