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Sept. 2019: UnitedHealth Group announces acquisition of Equian, LLC for $3.2 billion. [12] A Payment Integrity Institution that has joined the Optum family. Jan 2021 : UnitedHealth Group announces acquisition of Change Healthcare LLC , evaluated to worth $8 billion, in addition to paying off its $5 billion debt for a total of $13 billion. [ 13 ]
SCA's mission is to create partnerships between health plans, physician groups, and health systems, to acquire, develop and optimize surgical facilities. [3] SCA's 9,200 affiliated physicians provide a range of surgical services. [4] The company has been a part of Optum since March 2017. [5]
IPC providers manage the care of patients in coordination with primary care physicians and specialists in over 1,900 facilities in 28 states across the U.S. [1] The company name is derived from an earlier company called In-Patient Consultants Management, Inc. and the NASDAQ ticker name was changed to IPCM in 2008. [2]
MDVIP is an American company, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, that operates a network of physicians. The company's physicians practice preventive medicine and personalized primary-care medicine. The national network consists of 1,100 physicians serving over 380,000 patients in 45 states and the District of Columbia. [1]
In the United Kingdom the GP contract leaves the cost of point-of-care testing, which may be substantial, with the individual GP practice, which the cost of medication is met by the clinical commissioning group, which, as the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee noted in October 2018, creates perverse incentives. [44]
In 2002, he sold majority share in the WellCare Management Group, at which point WellCare Management was providing services to over 400,000 members. In 2007, Patel started a new insurance holding company called America's 1st Choice Holdings of Florida and acquired two Tampa Bay based Medicare Advantage Health Plans, Freedom Health and Optimum ...
In the United States, an independent practice association (IPA) is an association of independent physicians, or other organizations that contracts with independent care delivery organizations, and provides services to managed care organizations on a negotiated per capita rate, flat retainer fee, or negotiated fee-for-service basis. [1] [2]
Point of care (POC) documentation is the ability for clinicians to document clinical information while interacting with and delivering care to patients. [10] The increased adoption of electronic health records (EHR) in healthcare institutions and practices creates the need for electronic POC documentation through the use of various medical devices. [11]