Operation start-up.
When Mount Carmel Health System sized up the Medicare market in Columbus, Ohio, executives liked what they saw: Seniors trusted them more than insurers to run a managed care plan. Only six months later, their provider-sponsored plan opened for business under a HCFA pilot project. Here's how Mount Carmel pulled it off.
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Mount Carmel Health Plan, Columbus, OH, USA.
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