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2. Managed care - Wikipedia

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   The term managed care or managed healthcare is used in the United States to describe a group of activities intended to reduce the cost of providing health care and providing American health insurance while improving the quality of that care ("managed care techniques"). It has become the predominant system of delivering and receiving American ...

3. Health maintenance organization - Wikipedia

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   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 care providers (hospitals, doctors, etc.) on a prepaid basis. The US Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 required employers with 25 or more employees ...

4. UnitedHealth Group - Wikipedia

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   UnitedHealth Group has origins dating back to late 1974 with the founding of Minnesota-based Charter Med Incorporated by Richard Taylor Burke. It originally processed claims for doctors at the Hennepin County Medical Society. [4] United HealthCare Corporation was founded in 1977 to purchase Charter Med and create a network-based health plan for ...

5. As UnitedHealth grows richer and more powerful, patients get ...

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   The company isn't just the nation's largest provider of health insurance. It employs or is affiliated with about one in ten American doctors, and its ownership is interlocked with the country's ...

6. National Provider Identifier - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. UnitedHealth unit will start processing $14 billion medical ...

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   Change Healthcare is a key player in the U.S. healthcare system that depends heavily on insurance, processing about 50% of medical claims for around 900,000 physicians, 33,000 pharmacies, 5,500 ...