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The UHC Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that commits to providing quality health supportive services with a variety of resources to enhance the well-being of rural San Joaquin Valley communities. In 1971, UHC originated in the farm working communities where residents expressed the need to have improved access to healthcare.
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 ...
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]
An integrated delivery system (IDS), also known as integrated delivery network (IDN), is a health system with a goal of logical integration of the delivery (provision) of health care as opposed to a fragmented system or a disorganized lack of system.
Shared services is the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an internal service provider.
Utilization management is "a set of techniques used by or on behalf of purchasers of health care benefits to manage health care costs by influencing patient care decision-making through case-by-case assessments of the appropriateness of care prior to its provision," as defined by the Institute of Medicine [1] Committee on Utilization Management by Third Parties (1989; IOM is now the National ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on May 23, 2012, issued joint final rules regarding implementation of the new state-based health insurance exchanges to cover how the exchanges will determine eligibility for uninsured individuals and employees of small businesses seeking to buy insurance ...
United Health Services (UHS) (United Health Services Hospitals, Inc.) is the largest and most comprehensive provider of healthcare services in upstate New York's Southern Tier. [ 3 ] A locally owned, not-for-profit system, it is governed by a volunteer board of directors composed of residents from around the region. [ 4 ]