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Population Health Management

The practice of managing health outcomes across a defined population (a company's workforce, an insurer's members) rather than treating individual patients episodically. Requires aggregate data analysis, risk stratification across the full population, and proactive outreach to the highest-risk cohort before they present as acute cases. The economic logic: a small percentage of any population (typically 5%) drives the majority of healthcare costs. Identifying and intervening with that cohort early — before catastrophic events occur — is where the majority of preventable cost resides. Axenya's navigation nurses cover the top 5% of risk in each monitored population.

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