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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.
George M. Rapier III is an American businessman, and chairman and CEO of WellMed Medical Management, Inc., a diversified healthcare company and Physicians Health Choice, a physician-owned Medicare Advantage Organization contracted with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). WellMed is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.
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]
Traditional Medicare directly compensates providers on a fee-for-service basis. [1] Plans are offered by integrated health delivery systems, labor unions , non profit charities, and health insurance companies, which may limit enrollment to specific groups of people (such as union members).
Typically, portal services are available on the Internet at all hours of the day and night. Some patient portal applications exist as stand-alone web sites and sell their services to healthcare providers. Other portal applications are integrated into the existing website of a healthcare provider.
An application service provider (ASP) is a business providing application software generally through the Web. [1] ASPs that specialize in a particular application (such as a medical billing program) may be referred to as providing software as a service .
Listed in this category are corporations whose web sites provide web services. They are not to be confused with Internet service providers , which offer their customers Internet access (although it is certainly possible for the same company to do both).
Elvira Munguia was born in Puebla, Mexico on July 11, 1924 to Romulo Munguia and Carolina (Malpica) Munguia.She was the fourth of seven children. [3] After immigrating from Mexico to San Antonio in 1926, Romulo secured a job with the Spanish language newspaper La Prensa.