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In the 1980s, as Medicaid managed care expanded across the county, safety net providers, such as Community Health Centers (CHCs) and public hospitals, feared that managed care would reduce reimbursements for Medicaid-eligible services, making it more difficult for them to provide care to the un- and under-insured, and result in a loss of Medicaid volume, as beneficiaries would choose to see ...
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In 2013, Community Health Systems entered into an agreement with Health Management Associates to purchase HMA for about $3.6 billion in cash and stock. [22] The merger was completed in January 2014 and made Community Health Systems the largest for-profit hospital operator at the time, [23] with 206 hospitals in 29 states. [24]
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is an American multinational for-profit company specializing in health insurance and health care services, based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Selling insurance products under UnitedHealthcare , and health care services under the Optum brand, it is the world's ninth-largest company by revenue and the largest health ...
HealthPartners was founded in 1957 as Group Health, the first HMO, by Mid-America Mutual Insurance Company as an experiment in managed care and lower-cost health care. They established a full-service clinic in their headquarters on Como Avenue, at Highway 280, in St. Paul, near the border of Minneapolis. Its board of directors included one patient.
The HealthGrades website contains the latest quality data for Community Howard Regional Health, as of 2015. For this rating section three different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: quality ratings for eighteen inpatient conditions and procedures, thirteen patient safety indicators, percentage of patients giving the hospital a 9 or 10 (the two highest possible ratings).
Amerigroup is an American health insurance and managed health care provider. Amerigroup covers 7.7 million seniors, people with disabilities, low-income families and other state and federally sponsored beneficiaries, and federal employees in 26 states, making it the nation's largest provider of health care for public programs. [1]
Community health volunteers are members of a local community who have experience and training on the health problems prevalent in their community and care services available, in order to identify and link those in need with local providers. Community health volunteers may be referred to by different titles depending on their local health system ...