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Amedisys Welcomes Todd Roscoe as Vice President of Managed Care

^{Published on 2011-07-26 07:21:17 - Market Wire}
 

BATON ROUGE, La.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED) one of America's leading home care and hospice companies, recently announced that Todd Roscoe will join the company as vice president of managed care.

In this new role, Mr. Roscoe oversees the companya™s managed care operations and contract negotiations. Other responsibilities include managing payer relationships and working closely with the companya™s operational leaders.

Mr. Roscoe has more than two decades of experience managing multi-million dollar managed care contract negotiations. He previously served as chief managed care officer for Healthplace America, where he focused on developing and overseeing managed care operations and provider network development.

Prior to Healthplace America, he worked for Tenet Healthcare as vice president of managed care operations where he oversaw a national portfolio of 3,500 managed care contracts generating $4.4 billion in net revenues. Mr. Roscoe has performed similar duties for Allied Physicians, National Medical Enterprises and CIGNA Health Plan.

Mr. Roscoe holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance and Quantitative Analysis from the University of Cincinnati and an Executive Masters degree in Business Administration from Kennesaw State University, Georgia.

About Amedisys:

Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED) is the nationa™s leading health care company focused on bringing home the continuum of care. Each day Amedisys delivers personalized health care services to more than 35,000 individual patients and their families, in the comfort of patientsa™ homes. Amedisys has two divisions, home health care and hospice. The Companya™s state-of-the-art advanced chronic care management programs and leading-edge technology enables it to deliver quality care based upon the latest evidence-based best practices. Amedisys is a recognized innovator, being one of the first in the industry to equip its clinicians with point-of-care laptop technology and referring physicians with an internet portal that enables real-time coordination of patient care seamlessly. Amedisys also has the industrya™s first-ever nationwide Care Transitions program. Amedisys Care Transitions is designed to reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions through patient and caregiver health coaching and care coordination, which starts in the hospital and continues throughout completion of the patienta™s home health plan of care. For more information about the Company, please visit: [ www.amedisys.com ].