DuPage Medical Group, Humana Announce BreakThrough Care Center Joint Venture

CHICA­GO – Jan. 3, 2013 – DuPage Med­ical Group (DMG) and Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) launched a new part­ner­ship today in open­ing Break­Through Care Cen­ter, a com­pre­hen­sive, holis­tic out­pa­tient clin­ic serv­ing the most vul­ner­a­ble Chicagoland seniors strug­gling with chron­ic dis­ease. Break­Through Care Cen­ter was designed to improve med­ical out­comes while low­er­ing health care costs and improv­ing patients’ abil­i­ty to man­age their health conditions. 

Two Break­Through Care Cen­ter loca­tions opened on Jan. 2, in Lom­bard and Naperville. Led by vet­er­an DMG physi­cians Dr. Richard Krouse and Dr. Bri­an O’Leary, the clin­ics will focus on seniors suf­fer­ing from com­plex, chron­ic con­di­tions with the goal of increas­ing their qual­i­ty of life, reduc­ing hos­pi­tal­iza­tions and decreas­ing costs. Each Break­Through Care Cen­ter will include an RN, health coach­es, nutri­tion­ists, med­ica­tion ther­a­py man­age­ment, phys­i­cal ther­a­pists and social ser­vices resources.

“DuPage Med­ical Group is proud to join with Humana in cre­at­ing this unique clin­i­cal care mod­el for our patients who are in most need,” says DMG CEO Mike Kasper. ​“Through this endeav­or, our physi­cians can offer patients crit­i­cal ser­vices they need to bet­ter man­age chron­ic ill­ness­es like COPD and dia­betes. Break­Through Care Cen­ter rep­re­sents DuPage Med­ical Group’s mis­sion of serv­ing our patients at every level.” 

To qual­i­fy for treat­ment at Break­Through Care Cen­ters, patients must meet cer­tain health cri­te­ria and be referred by a DMG or Edward Med­ical Group physi­cian. DMG’s Break­Through Care Cen­ters fur­ther enhance the part­ner­ship between DMG and Edward to improve the qual­i­ty of health care in the west­ern and south­west­ern sub­urbs of Chica­go deliv­er­ing val­ue through qual­i­ty, access and effi­cien­cy. Patients pri­mar­i­ly will be Humana Medicare Advan­tage plan mem­bers with chron­ic or com­plex con­di­tions, though oth­er patients might be accept­ed based on referrals. 

“Access to afford­able, qual­i­ty care is often a strug­gle for chron­i­cal­ly ill seniors,” said Tim O’Rourke, Pres­i­dent of Humana’s Great Lakes Medicare region. ​“With Break­Through Care Cen­ter, our goal is to improve the qual­i­ty of life for those mem­bers by pro­vid­ing them with the spe­cial­ized, coor­di­nat­ed care they need. Humana has a his­to­ry of devel­op­ing inno­v­a­tive health care solu­tions, and we’re proud to be a part of this new type of care mod­el in DuPage County.” 

Humana will open two new Humana Guid­ance Cen­ters as part of each Break­Through Care Cen­ter. The Guid­ance Cen­ters will be open to the pub­lic, offer­ing social activ­i­ties, edu­ca­tion­al class­es and well­ness resources for seniors. 

For more infor­ma­tion on DuPage Med­ical Group, vis­it www​.DuPageMed​ical​Group​.com. For more infor­ma­tion on Humana Medicare Advan­tage plans, vis­it www​.Humana​-Medicare​.com.

About DuPage Med­ical Group

With more than 370 physi­cians and 50 loca­tions, DuPage Med­ical Group pro­vides physi­cian-direct­ed health care focused on qual­i­ty, effi­cien­cy and access. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www​.DuPageMed​ical​Group​.com.

About Humana

Humana Inc., head­quar­tered in Louisville, Ky., is a lead­ing health care com­pa­ny that offers a wide range of insur­ance prod­ucts and health and well­ness ser­vices that incor­po­rate an inte­grat­ed approach to life­long well-being. By lever­ag­ing the strengths of its core busi­ness­es, Humana believes it can bet­ter explore oppor­tu­ni­ties for exist­ing and emerg­ing adja­cen­cies in health care that can fur­ther enhance well­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties for the mil­lions of peo­ple across the nation with whom the com­pa­ny has relationships. 

More infor­ma­tion regard­ing Humana is avail­able to investors via the Investor Rela­tions page of the company’s web site at www​.humana​.com, includ­ing copies of: 

• Annu­al reports to stockholders
• Secu­ri­ties and Exchange Com­mis­sion filings
• Most recent investor con­fer­ence presentations
• Quar­ter­ly earn­ings news releases
• Replays of most recent earn­ings release con­fer­ence calls
• Cal­en­dar of events (includ­ing upcom­ing earn­ings con­fer­ence call dates and times, as well as planned inter­ac­tion with research ana­lysts and insti­tu­tion­al investors)
• Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance information