Community Health Plan Fact Sheet
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Mission:
Community Health Plan's mission is to deliver accessible managed care services that meet the needs and improve the health of our communities, and to make managed care participation beneficial for community-responsive providers.
Founded:
Community Health Plan is a not-for-profit health plan founded in 1992 by a network of community and migrant health centers in Washington State.
Plan type: Health Care Services Corporation (HCSC)
Service delivery network:
Our health care system of dedicated community and private network providers comprises:
- 540 primary care clinics and provider offices in 38 Washington state counties
- 2,365 primary care providers
- 13,571 contracted medical specialists
- 100+ hospitals
Health care programs:
Community Health Plan offers affordable health insurance coverage through numerous public programs under contract with the State of Washington. The health plan is the largest provider of the Basic Health and the sixth largest insurer (commercial or nonprofit) in Washington State.
Programs include:
- Basic Health and Washington Health Program
- Managed Medicaid (Healthy Options, SCHIP)
- Disability Lifeline (formerly General Assistance Unemployable or GA-U)
- Medicare Advantage
Total membership: 270,000+ Plan members as of May 2010
Executive management:
- Lance Hunsinger, CEO
- Alan Lederman, CFO
- Dr. Christopher Mathews, Senior Vice President and CMO
- Howard Springer, Senior Vice President of Business Development
- Marilee McGuire, Chief Administrative Officer
- Laura Boyd, Vice President of Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness
- Stacy Kessel, Vice President of Strategy and Analytics
- Wade Harman, Vice President and General Counsel
Employees:
Community Health Plan employs approximately 260 people.
Acknowledgements:
Selected by Weiss™ as "One of the strongest Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) in the U.S." for two consecutive years.
For more information, contact:
David Kinard, Director of Marketing, Corporate Communications, and Enrollment Growth
Community Health Plan, 206-613-8949