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2,700+. Website. www .wpshealth .com. Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS Health Solutions) is a not-for-profit service insurance corporation based in Madison, Wisconsin. WPS offers health insurance plans for groups and individuals and benefit plan administration for businesses.
Website. pnhp .org. Physicians for a National Health Program ( PNHP) is an advocacy organization of more than 20,000 American physicians, medical students, and health professionals that supports a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health insurance program. Since being co-founded in 1987 by physicians David Himmelstein and Steffie ...
Blue Shield of California is a mutual benefit corporation and health plan [6] [7] founded in 1939 by the California Medical Association. It is based in Oakland, California, and serves 4.5 million health plan members and more than 65,000 physicians across the state. Blue Shield of California was founded as a not-for-profit organization.
1902 - Founded as Physicians Mutual Insurance Company by Edwin E. Elliott, Physicians Mutual began by selling health insurance to medical professionals. 1962 - Policies were offered to the general public. 1970 - The company expanded into life insurance when it founded Physicians Life Insurance Company.
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 ...
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 ...
A 2009 study done at Harvard Medical School with Cambridge Health Alliance by cofounders of Physicians for a National Health Program, a pro-single payer lobbying group, showed that nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with a lack of patient health insurance. The study also found that uninsured, working Americans have an approximately 40% ...
More than 900 physicians are affiliated with University of Michigan Health - Sparrow. Two for profit financing organizations, the Physicians Health Plan and the Sparrow Physicians Health Plan, are owned and operated by University of Michigan Health - Sparrow.