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GuideWell, formally GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation (holding company for Florida Blue), is a mutual insurance holding company primarily focused on health insurance in Florida. It was created in 2013 by a reorganization initiated by Florida Blue, a member company of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association . [ 4 ]
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]
Aetna Inc. (/ ˈ ɛ t n ə / ET-nə) is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, primarily through employer-paid (fully or partly) insurance and benefit programs, and through Medicare.
The 1992 Legislature passed Chapter 92-291 of the Laws of Florida, which formally organized the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services into the following divisions: Administration, Agricultural Environmental Services (AES), Animal Industry, Plant Industry, Marketing and Development, Dairy Industry, Food Safety, Fruit and Vegetables ...
The company was founded in 1986 in Nashville by Phil Bredesen. [3]In August 1998, the company merged with Principal Health Care and moved its headquarters to Bethesda, Maryland.
[51] [52] It was reported, that Molina Healthcare operated plans that denied medical care under requests for prior authorization of services in more than 25% of cases in 2019. About 2.7 million people were enrolled in these plans at the time, while another 8.4 million people were enrolled in plans with denial rates higher than average at 15-25%.
There are a number of reasons that insurance providers require prior authorization, including age, medical necessity, the availability of a generic alternative, or checking for drug interactions. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A failed authorization can result in a requested service being denied or in an insurance company requiring the patient to go through a ...
During the 1996 legislative session, the beleaguered Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was reconstructed as two entities: the Department of Health and the Florida Department of Children and Families. [2] The Florida Department of Health [3] operates county health departments in all 67 of the state's counties. The agency ...