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Utah was the first state to implement a self-insurance program. [3] During the 1980s, PEHP evolved and expanded benefit offerings. The Healthy Utah program was created in 1982 through the Governor's Task Force on Cost Containment to address statistics of Utahns general health and fitness discovered by the Utah Department of Health.
In October 2003, the Board agreed to expand full membership to like-minded, community-affiliated health plans that served a majority of members from public insurance programs and shared the same outlook as the existing AHCAHP plans. The name change to the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) reflected the new mission and membership.
(1994) "Medicine in Utah" article in the Utah History Encyclopedia. The article was written by Henry P. Plenk and the Encyclopedia was published by the University of Utah Press. ISBN 9780874804256. Archived from the original on August 1, 2024, and retrieved on September 16, 2024.
Cambia Health Solutions is a nonprofit health care company based in Portland, Oregon. [2] It is the parent company of Regence, a member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association operating in Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Washington; Asuris Northwest Health; BridgeSpan Health; and LifeMap.
University of Utah Health, of which Huntsman Mental Health Institute is a component, is "the only academic medical center in the state of Utah and the Mountain West", [3] featuring a medical school and four other professional health profession schools (dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and public health), [9] plus several research initiatives ...
Intermountain Health announced that beginning in 2011, it would offer health insurance benefits for its employees' domestic partners. [ 9 ] In response to drug shortages and pricing scandals, Intermountain Health and other hospitals formed a generic drug manufacturer, Civica Rx , in 2018 to produce generic drugs that are in short supply or ...
Also in 2003, UnitedHealth Group acquired Golden Rule Financial, a provider of health savings accounts. [15] On July 21, 2003, Exante Bank started operating in Salt Lake City, Utah, as a Utah state-chartered industrial loan corporation. It changed its name to OptumHealth Bank in 2008 [16] and to Optum Bank in 2012.
Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D. won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine as a University of Utah gene targeting pioneer. [7] In March, 2017, University of Utah Health Care was quietly renamed University of Utah Health. [8] [9] In July 2017, the hospital was part of an incident where the police detective Jeff Payne wrongfully arrested nurse ...