Coventry Health Care of Louisiana Expanding into Shreveport.METAIRIE, La. -- Coventry Health Care Coventry Health Care, Inc. (Coventry) (NYSE: CVH) is a managed health care company in the United States. On February 8th of 2007 Coventry agreed to acquire Concentra's Workers Compensation Managed Care Services Businesses. External links
Coventry currently covers over 74,000 members in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans metropolitan areas, where it has built a network of 60 participating hospitals and 3,500 contracted physicians. In the Shreveport area, Coventry has contracted with Willis-Knighton Health System, Christus Schumpert Health System and LSU LSU Louisiana State University LSU Large Subunit LSU La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA) LSU La Sierra University LSU Link State Update (OSPF) LSU Learning Support Unit Medical Center for hospital services and a complete network of physicians and ancillary providers. A Coventry sales office has been opened up at 910 Pierremont Road, Suite 214 to service the area. "Coventry is very pleased to expand into the Shreveport area," says Mike Kasper, the company's 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. . "Adding participating health care providers in the region will benefit not only customers we will serve here, but also our existing customers located throughout Louisiana." About Coventry Health Care of Louisiana Coventry Health Care of Louisiana, Inc. has almost 20 years of experience in managed care. Coventry Health Care of Louisiana, Inc. and affiliate companies cover over 74,000 members in Louisiana. Coventry is a subsidiary of Coventry Health Care, Inc., a national managed health care company based in Bethesda, Maryland. Coventry Health Care, Inc. operates health plans, insurance companies, network rental services companies, and workers' compensation services companies. The company provides a full range of risk and fee-based managed care products and services, including 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, , PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there , POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale , Medicare Advantage, Medicare Prescription Drug Plans, Medicaid, Workers' Compensation and Network Rental to a broad cross section of employer and government-funded groups, government agencies, and other insurance carriers and administrators in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). and Puerto Rico. More information is available on the Internet at www.chcla.com or www.cvty.com. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion