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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Florida Medicareas Medical Director Report

By Don Bethune

SUNRISE, Fla. Contract ensures continued access to Tenet hospitals in the South Florida area for UnitedHealthcare customers South Florida's rapidly growing and innovative healthcare market has attracted many new players: relocating companies taking advantage of high quality, international visitors who check in for a check-up or sophisticated treatments not available in their native lands, and major national healthcare firms attracted by the region's growth and demographics. Across the region, new alternatives and diverse choices have created a true form of managed competition - in the marketplace - which bolsters both quality and cost-effectiveness for consumers.

Today was another momentous day in South Floridaas healthcare market, with the signing of the new multi-year contract between UnitedHealthcare and Tenet, which will cover inpatient and outpatient services, UnitedHealthcareas commercial products and managed Medicare products, and Tenetas acute care hospitals and its rehabilitation hospital.

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

Much to the dismay of some 14,000 senior citizens, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida announced on September 10 that it would have to terminate a major health insurance plan in Floridaas Clay and Duval counties. The executive board pronounced its disappointment that they could not stay in the market any longer due to federal payments being in short supply.

Starting on January 1, following the suit of other insurers who have withdrawn their Medicare HMO plans due to a winding down in federal funding, Blue Cross and Blue Shieldas Medicare HMO, Medicare and More, will be withdrawn from Duval, Clay, and Pinellas counties, leaving the company with only one Medicare Choice plan in the region.

"We remained in as many markets as possible for as long as we could. However, because Medicare health plans do not Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.(BUSINESS WIRE)June 9, 2004 Tenet Hospitals Give NSU Health Professions Division $341,050 Grant to Establish Broward's First Entry-Level, Accelerated BSN Program to Tackle Shortage Tenet South Florida's hospitals and Nova Southeastern University's (NSU) Health Professions Division have teamed up to address a crisis in the region: Florida's nursing shortage. Tenet South Florida announced today it has awarded a two-year, $341,050 grant to the university to help fund the first-ever, entry-level accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program in Broward County.Additionally, Tenet When the Tampa school informed the nation in 1996 that it was starting a football program, most outsiders scoffed. 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. With such national powerhouses as neighbors, South Florida was given little shot of establishing a high-profile program

A new contract was signed today between Tenet South Florida and CIGNA HealthCare. The agreement allows for all of South Floridaas 250,000 CIGNA managed care and PPO members to continue to have access to and receive both inpatient and outpatient services at Tenet South Florida hospitals and diagnostic centers.

According to President Andrew Crooks, this multi-year agreement with Tenet should serve as strong proof of CIGNA HealthCareas ongoing commitment to its members in terms of affordability, accessibility, and comprehensiveness of coverage, particularly its many valuable members in its long standing South Florida market.

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