Optima Health Introduces New Individual and Family Health Plans
Optima Health, a Virginia-based health plan, launched its individual and family health plans throughout Virginia this week. These plans are designed to make it easy for individuals to select health plan coverage, no matter what their budget or stage of life.
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Optima Health Launches Campaign For Medicare Annual Enrollment
This year, Optima Health is offering four comprehensive plan choices, including two new $0 premium options.
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Optima Health No Longer Requires Referrals for Most Plans
Beginning January 1, 2008, referrals to see a participating specialist are no longer required for most HMO and POS plans!
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HealthEquity®, Inc., and Optima Health To Offer Service-Oriented Health Savings Accounts
Optima Health customers will now have access to an enhanced consumer driven product including a health savings account (HSA) and high deductible health plan (HDHP).
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Optima Health Named Virginia's Top Health Plan for Customer Service
Optima Health has recently been named the 2006/2007 Customer Care Award winner for the state of Virginia.
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Prescription Mail Order Change
Beginning October 1, 2007, prescription mail order services will handled by Caremark.
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Optima Health Ranked Among Top 50 Health Plans By U.S. News & World Report
Optima Health is ranked 50th among the nation’s health plans in the second annual survey by U.S. News & World Report and NCQA, the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
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Optima Health Now Serving the Fredericksburg Area
Optima Health is now providing group health coverage in Fredericksburg and surrounding King George, Stafford and Spotsylvania counties.
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Sentara CarePlex Hospital Opens Second Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Two fully operational labs offer lifesaving heart treatment to area residents.
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Sentara Heart Hospital
Construction is complete and the doors opened on the region’s only dedicated heart hospital, Sentara Heart Hospital on Saturday, February 25, 2006.
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Sentara Port Warwick Expands Emergency Care to 24 Hours per Day
Emergency care at Sentara Port Warwick is now offered around the clock-24 hours per day.
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Sentara Healthcare 5th Most Integrated Network
Verispan recently ranked Sentara Healthcare for the tenth consecutive year in a row as a Top 100 Integrated Healthcare Network (IHN).
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Optima Health Explanation of Benefits (EOBs) Available by Secure Email
View, print, file and save your Explanation of Benefits without ever having to open a paper envelope again!
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Optima Health Web Site Receives URAC Accreditation
Optima Health announced today that it has been awarded URAC Health Web Site accreditation from the American Accreditation Healthcare Commission, a Washington, DC-based healthcare accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the healthcare industry.
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Treatment Cost Advisor Helps You Estimate the Cost of Your Care
Need to learn about and plan for healthcare treatment costs? We now have a tool to help you make the decisions you need.
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Sentara Princess Anne, Comprehensive Health Campus
In response to staggering growth and demand for health care services in southern Virginia Beach, Sentara is opening a comprehensive health campus with the Southside’s first free-standing emergency center.
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Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center Opens Thursday, August 17
The new regional medical center offers increased privacy and patient-centered care with larger all private rooms, expanded Emergency, Surgery and Maternity Departments; and advanced diagnostic imaging capabilities.
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Sentara Bayside Hospital Kicks Off Program Aimed at “Building a Better Environment for Safety”
Virginia Beach Vice Mayor Louis R. Jones joined Sentara Bayside Hospital Administrator Larry DePriest and the Bayside leadership team for the kickoff of a new internal program aimed at keeping employees engaged in patient safety efforts at the hospital.
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Expansion at Sentara Port Warwick Now Open
Sentara Port Warwick II—the 2nd phase of Sentara’s outpatient campus off Jefferson Avenue—opened Monday, June 26 with a brand new ambulatory surgery center.
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Sentara Health Campus Opens Summer 2006
Private and Sentara physicians are among the dozens of doctors committing to office space at Sentara Princess Anne, the 72-acre comprehensive health campus at the intersection of Princess Anne and Dam Neck Roads.
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Signing In to Optimahealth.com? Check Your Password.
Passwords for optimahealth.com are now case sensitive.
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Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS) Becomes Out-of-Area Provider Network
Beginning January 1, 2006, the out-of-area provider network will change from the CCN Network to the Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS) Network.
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Optima Plans Rank Well in First U.S. News & World Report Survey
In its first national ranking of health plans, U.S. News & 30 Medicaid managed care programs. Optima Health plans rank in top 100.
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