Carolina Summit Healthcare licensed as new HMO in North Carolina.RALEIGH, N.C. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1996--A new HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, dedicated to preventive preventive /pre·ven·tive/ (pre-vent´iv) prophylactic. pre·ven·tive or pre·ven·ta·tive adj. Preventing or slowing the course of an illness or disease; prophylactic. n. health care and respect for each patient has been licensed in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . Carolina Summit Healthcare, Inc. was licensed on Wednesday, February 14 to operate in 59 North Carolina counties. The plan emphasizes a humanistic hu·man·ist n. 1. A believer in the principles of humanism. 2. One who is concerned with the interests and welfare of humans. 3. a. A classical scholar. b. A student of the liberal arts. approach to care, empowering physicians to offer diagnosis and treatment that's in the best interest of patients. "Our philosophy is different than most HMOs," says Adrian Langford, Carolina Summit vice president of marketing and development. "We give each physician the autonomy to make medical decisions and referrals without placing the physician at financial risk." Headquartered in downtown Raleigh, Carolina Summit is a subsidiary of Summit Consulting in Lakeland, Fla. Summit Consulting is Florida's second-largest administrator of worker-compensation funds. The corporation also owns Meritech Solutions Inc., a software development and consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a which provides software solutions to the managed care industry. CONTACT: Sterrett Dymond Advertising 704/372-2707 |
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