Compcare Signs Contracts with United Hospital System and Physicians; Insurer Creates Broadest Network in Kenosha County.Business Editors Compcare Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract Insurance Corporation (CompcareBlue) announced that it has significantly expanded its network in Kenosha County by signing contracts with United Hospital System, Inc. and Kenosha Health Services Corporation (KHSC KHSC Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center ). The deal, effective June 1, 2002, makes CompcareBlue the insurer with the largest network of choice for hospitals and physicians in Kenosha County. The agreements provide access to Kenosha Medical Center and St. Catherine's Medical Center, both part of United Hospital System, Inc. In addition, the contract with KHSC adds almost 200 physicians to the CompcareBlue network. Michael Bernstein, president of CompcareBlue, welcomed the three-year contracts. "These contracts place us in a very competitive position," said Bernstein. "No other insurer offers such a broad network of providers in Kenosha County." President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of United Hospital System, Inc., Ric Schmidt believes that the addition of Kenosha Medical Center, St. Catherine's Medical Center and affiliated physicians as providers to the CompcareBlue insurance program will significantly enhance the CompcareBlue provider network in Kenosha County. "We are honored to serve CompcareBlue's members and will diligently work to provide those patients with the highest level of clinical care possible in a compassionate and caring manner. Our highly trained physicians and staff coupled with our state-of-the-art equipment and facilities are second to none in our service area," said Schmidt. "Our full array of acute care medical and surgical services will make it unnecessary for patients to ever need to leave Kenosha County for their health care needs except under the rarest of circumstances. United Hospital System is fully supported by Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital as its tertiary care partner for those few services that are not provided by United Hospital System in Kenosha County." Compcare Health Services Insurance Corporation, the oldest 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, in the state, offers a variety of HMO and POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale products to people in 39 counties throughout Wisconsin, including all of southeastern Wisconsin. It provides services to more than 120,000 members. Compcare's parent company is Cobalt Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CBZ CBZ Carbamazepine CBZ Carbobenzoxy CBZ Centrale Burgerlijke Ziekeninrichting (Dutch) ). For more information please visit our website at www.cobaltcorporation.com |
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