Coventry Health Care To Use ProVentive’s Solutions for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 16, 2008--ProVentive, the leading information technology provider of quality improvement solutions for the health care industry, announced today that Coventry Health Care, Inc. (Coventry) has selected ProVentive for its leading-edge pilot project in identifying and managing cardiovascular risk.

Coventry, providing a full range of group and individual health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid programs, and coverage for specialty services including dental services, will deploy ProVentive’s solutions to identify health plan members who are most likely to develop adverse cardiovascular clinical conditions, and will use the application as a base from which to launch its comprehensive Heart Failure pilot program.

The voluntary Heart Failure program is focused on early identification of risk factors, daily symptom monitoring and medication reminders using a home-based device. In addition, the program will align member and physician incentives, promote healthier behavior through self monitoring by members, and include personalized nurse education.

ProVentive’s solutions address one of the most pressing issues facing managed care plans today: how to deliver quality improvement and care management programs to the members that need them the most, at the exact time when they can deliver the greatest impact to a member’s health. ProVentive provides innovative solutions that rapidly assess an individual's overall health and determine the interaction of physical health, behavioral health, substance abuse and psycho-social factors in order to help health plans understand the specific health status of an individual, and what can be done to improve it.

Mr. Saeed Aminzadeh, Senior Vice President of ProVentive noted, "Coventry is at the leading edge of using technology to better serve its members. We are excited about putting the power of ProVentive to work for them."

Dr. Vishu Jhaveri, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Coventry said, “ProVentive’s unique technology – marrying pattern-recognition technology and clinical member assessments – and innovative approach to understanding, predicting and stratifying member risk will enable us to focus our programs on individuals that need it the most, thereby improving the quality of care provided to our members.”

About ProVentive

ProVentive is the market-leading provider of cutting-edge information solutions that help health care organizations identify and act on health care quality improvement opportunities. ProVentive helps ensure that the right individuals are targeted for the right care at the right time by delivering solutions that match an individual's actual health care needs with available outcomes improvement programs and resources, at the exact time when they can deliver the greatest impact to an individual's health.

ProVentive’s next-generation web native applications are the cornerstone of a new medical management approach to identify and engage individuals at highest risk for imminent, avoidable health events who will benefit most from targeted interventions.

ProVentive’s software solutions and analytic services help payers, providers, employers and government agencies reduce health care costs and improve care quality. To learn more, visit www.proventive.com.

<em>About Coventry Health Care

Coventry Health Care (www.cvty.com) is a diversified national managed healthcare company based in Bethesda, Maryland, operating health plans, insurance companies, network rental and workers’ compensation services companies. Through its Commercial Business, Individual Consumer & Government Business, and Specialty Business divisions, Coventry provides a full range of risk and fee-based managed care products and services to a broad cross section of individuals, employer and government-funded groups, government agencies, and other insurance carriers and administrators.