Medical Director For Florida Medicare
South Florida has become a major hub for the healthcare industry, with companies relocating to this region as a valuable market and international patients seeking facilities and services not available in their home countries. There are many choices available to consumers in this competitive managed market, positively influencing quality and affordability, such as UnitedHealthcareas Tenet hospitals.
Todayas signing of a renewal multi-year contract involving UnitedHealthcare and Tenet will integrate UnitedHealthcareas products, such as its commercial and Medicare goods, with Tenetas facilities, such as its fourteen acute care hospitals and its rehabilitation hospital, to cover inpatient and outpatient services.
This new agreement is a clear demonstration of how UnitedHealthcare and Tenet are working together to provide UnitedHealthcare customers with broad South Florida’s emergence as a serious BCS title contender proves again that the Sunshine State is the game’s grass roots epicenter
Sep. 10Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida is discontinuing a plan serving 14,000 seniors in Clay and Duval counties because of inadequate federal payments.Florida was about to win a national title under Steve Spurrier. Florida State was in the midst of its mind-boggling run of four title-game appearances in five seasons. And Miami was about to experience a dominating renaissance under Butch Davis.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield seems to be no different than the other insurance companies who have been forced by lacking federal funding to cease offering Medicare HMO products. Effective January 1, Blue Cross will withdraw one of its two Medicare Choice plans, Medicare and More, from Duval, Clay, and Pinellas counties.
June 9, 2004 ia Floridaas nursing shortage has long been an area feared to create a health care crisis. In order to address this concern, Tenet Hospitals has granted the Nova Southeastern University Health Professions Division a $341,050 grant to be used over two years. This grant is to be used to help set up an accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program for entry level work, the first ever such program in Broward County.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Tenet South Florida today announced a new contract agreement enabling all CIGNA HealthCare Managed Care and PPO members in South Florida to continue receiving care at Tenet’s South Florida hospitals. Under the agreement, CIGNA HealthCare’s nearly 250,000 members in South Florida will have access to Tenet’s 15 hospitals and diagnostic centers for all covered inpatient and outpatient services
This multi-year agreement with Tenet is an important step in our ongoing commitment to provide CIGNA HealthCare members with affordable, accessible coverage through an extensive network of the area’s leading hospitals,” said Andrew Crooks, president and … “We pretty much started in Florida in 1988, and South Florida is our largest market within the state with 17 hospitals,” said
