Re: Linkia and Managed Care
Elizabeth Mansfield
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Re: Linkia and Managed Care
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Elizabeth Mansfield
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7/25/2006
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Hernan,The Cigna contract is a national contract. I believe it is a staged roll out, it will not be limited to Florida.
ElizabethThe following was posted in the Edge online on 9/22/2005.
Here's the link. <URL Redacted>
Linkia to Provide O&P Services for Cigna HealthCare Hanger Orthopedic Group Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Linkia LLC, has announced an agreement with CIGNA HealthCare for the provision of orthotic and prosthetic products and services. As a result, Linkia will serve to assist in O&P network management for more than nine million CIGNA HealthCare beneficiaries, Hanger said. The agreement will be effective October 17, and includes all Hanger sites across the nation as well as independent providers under direct agreement with Linkia.
<URL Redacted> September 2005, Linkia announced it had obtained a contract with CIGNA Healthcare, which will be effective beginning October 17, 2005. It is one of the two contracts that the company had planned to sign in the third quarter 2005. A contract signed by Linkia in 2004 with UHC has yet to produce real revenues, although we believe a component of the second quarter same-store growth came from this earlier contract. In the earlier Linkia signing, the managed care payor needed to slowly work out from previous contractual arrangements.
Gerardo Hernandez < <Email Address Redacted> > wrote: Dear Members:
I simply wanted to put out there that Cigna has dropped contracts with all of
its providers (in South Florida at least) and is now using LINKIA as their
exclusive provider for O and P services.
Are any other areas of the country experiencing the same thing, or this is
phenomenon isolated to our area alone?
Also, are any privately owned practices affiliated with the LINKIA Network
of providers? Their website says to contact them about inclusion in their
network.
I look forward to hearing responses and dialogue on this issue. It is going
to be very interesting what other managed care companies will be doing in the
future and if they will follow.
Thanks for your input.
Hernan Luna, CPO, LPO
Allied Orthopedics, Inc.
1460 West 68 St. #101
Hialeah, FL 33014
(305) 828-3090 Phone
(305) 828-5090 Fax
www.alliedorthopedics.com
ElizabethThe following was posted in the Edge online on 9/22/2005.
Here's the link. <URL Redacted>
Linkia to Provide O&P Services for Cigna HealthCare Hanger Orthopedic Group Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Linkia LLC, has announced an agreement with CIGNA HealthCare for the provision of orthotic and prosthetic products and services. As a result, Linkia will serve to assist in O&P network management for more than nine million CIGNA HealthCare beneficiaries, Hanger said. The agreement will be effective October 17, and includes all Hanger sites across the nation as well as independent providers under direct agreement with Linkia.
<URL Redacted> September 2005, Linkia announced it had obtained a contract with CIGNA Healthcare, which will be effective beginning October 17, 2005. It is one of the two contracts that the company had planned to sign in the third quarter 2005. A contract signed by Linkia in 2004 with UHC has yet to produce real revenues, although we believe a component of the second quarter same-store growth came from this earlier contract. In the earlier Linkia signing, the managed care payor needed to slowly work out from previous contractual arrangements.
Gerardo Hernandez < <Email Address Redacted> > wrote: Dear Members:
I simply wanted to put out there that Cigna has dropped contracts with all of
its providers (in South Florida at least) and is now using LINKIA as their
exclusive provider for O and P services.
Are any other areas of the country experiencing the same thing, or this is
phenomenon isolated to our area alone?
Also, are any privately owned practices affiliated with the LINKIA Network
of providers? Their website says to contact them about inclusion in their
network.
I look forward to hearing responses and dialogue on this issue. It is going
to be very interesting what other managed care companies will be doing in the
future and if they will follow.
Thanks for your input.
Hernan Luna, CPO, LPO
Allied Orthopedics, Inc.
1460 West 68 St. #101
Hialeah, FL 33014
(305) 828-3090 Phone
(305) 828-5090 Fax
www.alliedorthopedics.com
Citation
Elizabeth Mansfield, “Re: Linkia and Managed Care,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 24, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/226919.
