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 For-Profit Insurance Plans -- economics Government Regulation Health Care Coalitions -- economics Health Care Sector Organizational Case Studies State Government Humans 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