Company type | Subsidiary |
---|---|
Industry | Healthcare |
Founded | Tampa, Florida (1985) |
Headquarters | 8735 Henderson Road, Renaissance One, , |
Key people | [1] |
Services | Managed care |
Revenue | US$17.007 billion(2017) [1] |
US$469 million(2017) [1] | |
US$374 million(2017) [1] | |
Total assets | US$8.365 billion(2017) [1] |
Total equity | US$2.417 billion(2017) [1] |
Number of employees | 14,000 (October 2019) [1] |
Parent | Centene Corporation |
Website | http://www.wellcare.com |
Footnotes /references [2] |
WellCare Health Plans, Inc. is an American health insurance company that provides managed care services primarily through Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug plans for members across the United States.
WellCare began operations in 1985 and has its headquarters in Tampa, Florida. It became a subsidiary of Centene Corporation in January 2020. [3] [4]
WellCare began operations in 1985 in Tampa, Florida as a Medicaid provider for the State of Florida. [5] In 1992, Kiran Patel, a cardiologist and entrepreneur, purchased the company. [6] [7]
In 2002, Patel sold it to a New York investment group led by George Soros and Todd Farha. [7] Also in 2002, Todd Farha joined the company as CEO. [8] [9]
In 2004, it became a public company via an initial public offering. [10] In 2006, WellCare began offering Medicare Advantage plans with prescription drug benefits after the signing of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act in 2003. [11]
Also in 2006, WellCare began offering Medicare Part D plans. [12]
On October 24, 2007, law enforcement agents executed a search warrant on WellCare's headquarters in Tampa, Florida–based on a whistleblower complaint that provided evidence of WellCare inflating patients' treatment costs and not returning overpayments to the state. The complaint also named several employees who knew about the activities. [13] [14]
In 2011, the SEC filed criminal charges against four WellCare executives. In 2013, the executives, including former CEO Todd Farha, were found guilty of the charges, including healthcare fraud and making false statements to law enforcement. [15] Between 2008 and 2012, the company agreed to pay a total of $217.5 million to settle the claims against them. [16] [17] [18]
In January 2008, Heath Schiesser was promoted to president and CEO, replacing Todd Farha. [19] Schiesser was replaced in December 2009 by Alec Cunningham. [20]
In November 2013, WellCare appointed Chairman David Gallitano to serve as interim CEO. [21]
In 2018, 2019 and 2020 Fortune magazine named WellCare as one of the World's Most Admired Companies. [22] [23]
In January 2020, the company was acquired by Centene Corporation for $17 billion. [3] Following the merger, WellCare's CFO Andrew Asher became the CFO of Centene and CEO Kenneth Burdick joined the executive team at Centene. [24] [25]
In November 2012, Wellcare acquired Easy Choice Health Plan in California. [26]
UnitedHealthcare's South Carolina Medicaid business was acquired in February 2013. [27] In April of that year, Aetna's Medicaid business in Missouri, Missouri Care, was acquired. [28]
The Windsor Health Group was acquired by WellCare in January 2014. [29] [30]
In January 2017 Care1st Health Plan Arizona, a subsidiary of Care1st Health Plan and Blue Shield of California affiliate was acquired. [31] Wellcare purchased Universal American [32] and Phoenix Health Plan, formerly a subsidiary of Abrazo Community Health Network, a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare in May 2017. [33] [34]
Meridian Health Plans of Detroit, Michigan, was acquired in September 2018. [35] [36]
In September 2019, Aetna's Medicare prescription insurance business was acquired as a condition of CVS Health's acquisition of Aetna. [37]
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