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By 2010, the company was the third largest Medicaid HMO in the country, with $2.5 billion in revenue and 800,000 members across Ohio and Michigan. [12] In 2010, CareSource announced expansion of its provider network in Southeastern Ohio through a partnership with Quality Care Partners (QCP), a physician-hospital organization (PHO). [13]
A National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The NPI has replaced the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) as the required identifier for Medicare services, and is used by other payers ...
CareStar, Inc. (CareStar) is a private, Ohio-based healthcare corporation which provides home and community-based case management services in government, agency and residential operations. [1] CareStar is one of the contracted case management agencies for the Ohio Home Care Waiver Program and HOME Choice through the Ohio Department of Medicaid ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
There is an extremely high number of doctors per capita in Georgia compared with other European countries, and it had 573.3 physicians per every 100,000 people in 2015. Number of nurses per 100000 population since 1998 is going down and is much less, than in countries mentioned above (419 per 100000 population).
In 1982, Blue Shield merged with The Blue Cross Association to form the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBS). [11] Prior to 1986, organizations administering BCBS were tax exempt under 501(c)(4) as social welfare plans. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 revoked the exemption, however, because the plans sold commercial-type insurance.
478 – Macon, Forsyth, Fort Valley, Warner Robins, Dublin, Eastman and Milledgeville (central Georgia) 706 – Columbus (west-central Georgia); Rome, Dahlonega, Toccoa, Athens and Augusta (northwest, northeast, upper east-central Georgia) 678 – Atlanta and its suburbs, overlay area code that covers the same area as 404, 470, 770, and 943
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] Also in 2002, Todd Farha joined the company as CEO. [8] [9]