Vision plan gets license.The California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Department of Managed Health Care last month granted a Knox-Keene license to Los Angeles-based vision care benefits provider March Vision Care Inc. that will enable the husband and wife ophthalmologists who founded the company to move forward with ambitious expansion plans. Since its launch in 2001 under another name, March Vision Care has been limited to contracting directly with insurers to provide their services. The license enables them to contract directly with employer groups employer group Association of employers Managed care An entity with a current group benefits agreement in effect with a health plan to provide covered health care services to its employee-subscribers and eligible dependents. , unions and other associations. Chief Executive and co-founder Glen March said the company's 260,000 member base in California alone will jump to 330,000 on Jan. 1 based on pending contracts that were awaiting the state's decision. The company, the only African-American owned and managed vision care plan in the country, serves 800,000 members in California and five other states. It battles Sacramento-based vision care benefit giant Vision Service Plan, relying on a proprietary eyeSynergy management software developed by March and his wife Cabrini March. The Marchs say the program improves communication among members, doctors and health plans to provide 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. and ongoing care. "We needed to make sure that when a member goes for an exam, they got a complete exam," Glen March said. "We also want to make sure that the patient gets easy access to their medical records and the information gets to their primary care facility and their 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, , so if you need to get into a chronic disease management program that gets done." Staff reporter Deborah Deborah (dĕb`ōrə), in the Bible, prophetess and judge of Israel, the only woman to hold that office. Under her guidance Barak conquered Sisera and delivered Israel from the oppression of the Canaanite King Jabin. Crowe Crowe may refer to: People
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