IPC to Provide Hospitalist Services to Aetna US Healthcare HMO and PPO Members in St. Louis.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers ST. LOUIS--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 5, 2001 IPC (1) (InterProcess Communication) The exchange of data between one program and another either within the same computer or over a network. It implies a protocol that guarantees a response to a request. -- The Hospitalist hos·pi·tal·ist n. A physician, usually an internist, who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients. hospitalist Company today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Aetna US Healthcare to implement a voluntary hospitalist program in the greater St. Louis Greater St. Louis is the informal name of the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area, the 18th largest in the United States. Its population of 2,801,033 (as of 2007 according to the US Census Bureau) includes the independent City of St. Louis, St. community, effective March 1. Aetna currently has more than 250,000 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, and PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there members in that market, including nearly 90,000 HMO members through the combining of Aetna's base with their recent assumption of Prudential Prudential is the name of two different companies and buildings named after them: Companies:
Hospitalists are acute-care specialists who focus on a patient's hospital care from time of admission to discharge. These doctors work in close consultation with the primary care physician to manage the entire inpatient inpatient /in·pa·tient/ (in´pa-shent) a patient who comes to a hospital or other health care facility for diagnosis or treatment that requires an overnight stay. in·pa·tient n. episode of care. "We are honored by the Aetna agreement, and look forward to working with those Aetna physicians who choose to have us care for their hospitalized patients," said Glenn Appelbaum, executive director of IPC St. Louis. "We are able to enhance their outpatient practices by having their members in-hospital care provided by doctors expressly trained in this special area of medicine. Once the patient is discharged, he or she returns to the care of their Aetna primary care physician." Including the new agreements with Aetna, IPC has -- in the past eight months alone -- entered into agreements with premier health plans covering close to 1.7 million lives in the seven markets it serves. In addition to St. Louis, IPC has practices in Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Denver, Phoenix and Tucson. Founded in 1995, IPC practices admit more than 10,000 new patients a month and manage more than $1 billion of health-care expenditures annually. The company employs approximately 150 physicians and works with more than 4,000 referring physicians and more than 1,000 health plans nationwide. In 2000, IPC announced a record-setting performance, with revenues rising from $10 million in 1999 to approximately $35 million. Information on IPC may be obtained at www.ipcm.com. A Fortune 500 company, Aetna US Healthcare provides more than 45 million people worldwide with quality products, services and information. Aetna is the nation's leading health and related benefits company with 19.4 million health members, 14.6 million dental members and 11.5 million group insurance members. |
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