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e. 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]
John Muir Medical Center, Concord, is a 244-bed acute care facility that serves Contra Costa and southern Solano counties. The medical center is a center for cancer care and cardiovascular care, including open heart surgery and interventional cardiology. Other areas of specialty include general surgery, orthopedic and neurology programs.
Long Beach Memorial is one of only 3 hospitals in California with a 320 Slice CT Scanner and preventive technology and programs such as the Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscope (ENB) and the Division of Interventional Neuroradiology. [2] The hospital includes facilities such as the MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute, the MemorialCare ...
Carelon Health, (formerly CareMore) a subsidiary of Elevance Health through its Carelon brand, is an integrated health plan and care delivery system for Medicare and Medicaid patients. The company was founded in 1992 as CareMore by Sheldon Zinberg and Johnn Edelston, President of HealthPro Associates through the merger of Community IPA managed ...
v. t. e. In the United States, a health maintenance organization (HMO) is a medical insurance group that provides health services for a fixed annual fee. [1] It is an organization that provides or arranges managed care for health insurance, self-funded health care benefit plans, individuals, and other entities, acting as a liaison with health ...
Integrated delivery system. 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. The term has sometimes been used in a broad sense with reference to ...
Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center (OCMMC) is a 240-bed community hospital in Fountain Valley, California. It is part of the four MemorialCare medical centers, located in Orange and Los Angeles counties. The 14 bed paramedic receiving Emergency Department has received awards that include CEP's Emergency Department of the Year for 2000 and was ...
Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) is a non-profit health care system with dual headquarters located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Downers Grove, Illinois. As of 2021, the AAH system has 26 hospitals and more than 500 sites of care, with 75,000 employees, including 10,000 employed physicians. [2] The health system formed as a result of a merger ...