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A WellCare bus in Astoria, Queens, New York City. WellCare began operations in 1985 in Tampa, Florida as a Medicaid provider for the State of Florida. [5] In 1992, Kiran Patel, a cardiologist and entrepreneur, purchased the company. [6] [7] In 2002, Patel sold it to a New York investment group led by George Soros and Todd Farha. [7]
The company also acquired Freedom Plan, California Dental Health Plan, and Advantage Health Plans. [5] In 1996, it acquired FHP. [6] In December 2005, the company was acquired by UnitedHealth Group. [7] At that time, the company had 705,000 Medicare enrollees. [8]
In 2011, WellPoint acquired CareMore, a Cerritos, California-based provider of insurance and care centers for elderly patients. [ 50 ] In 2012, WellPoint acquired Amerigroup for $4.9 billion, anticipating significant growth due to Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act .
Wellcare by Allwell Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans are sold by private insurers in 32 states in 2025. However, not every county or ZIP code in those states has access to every plan.
The Sunshine Act requires manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, biological and medical supplies covered by the three federal health care programs Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to collect and track all financial relationships with physicians and teaching hospitals and to report these data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
This model compares real-time data sets of insurance coverage in 2014 to a baseline scenario without ACA coverage. By doing so, the model can project future enrollment numbers in California health programs. According to this model, at some point in time, an estimated 1.1 to 1.3 million Californians will be enrolled in Covered California.
Hospitals in California Adventist Health Community Care-Hanford (formerly Central Valley General Hospital) is a clinic in Hanford, California . It offers extensive Community Care clinic services serving communities in Kings, Tulare and southern Fresno counties. [ 1 ]
Many of us are painfully aware of our body's increasing number of shortcomings as we get older. Sagging skin, hearing loss, receding hairlines and tending to use the bathroom more frequently than ...