Ensuring health plan mergers benefit the community: California regulators and infrastructure investment programs

Ensuring health plan mergers benefit the community: California regulators and infrastructure investment programs

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Issue brief (California HealthCare Foundation)
Author(s):
Shore, Karen, author
Contributor(s):
California HealthCare Foundation, issuing body.
Publication:
[Oakland, Calif.] : California Health Care Foundation, July 2018
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
For-Profit Insurance Plans -- organization & administration
Health Care Coalitions -- organization & administration
Investments
Insurance Benefits
Insurance Carriers -- statistics & numerical data
Insurance, Health
Safety-net Providers
California
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Three for-profit health plan mergers have occurred in California since 2004--Anthem and WellPoint in 2004, UnitedHealth and PacifiCare in 2005, and Centene and Health Net in 2016. As conditions of these mergers, California regulators required the plans to make investments in the infrastructure of the state's health care delivery system. The Anthem and UnitedHealth infrastructure investment programs have been in place for over a decade, and Centene just launched its program. This paper describes these three infrastructure investment programs, the process for identification and review of potential investments, results to date, challenges encountered, and opportunities going forward.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (13 pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101744523 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101744523