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History of FamilyCare

Two physicians and our current President, Jeff Heatherington, created FamilyCare, Inc. in 1984. FamilyCare was originally designed as a managed care organization to provide health care to the Medicaid population under the 1983 Medicaid Managed Care Act. With the exception of Kaiser Permanente, FamilyCare is the oldest Medicaid Managed Care program in Oregon.

Since then, FamilyCare has been serving residents by controlling costs in a way that is beneficial for physicians, specialists, hospitals and patients, and creating a management system that left physicians and providers in control of managing their patients. FamilyCare also created a program of educating physicians to help them more effectively manage their own practices. The overall result is that FamilyCare has maintained a very successful operation that relies on a streamlined management system, compensates its providers at an extremely attractive rate, and allows the provider and patients to make medical decisions for themselves.

In 1988, FamilyCare purchased Evergreen Medical Systems, a Medicaid Managed Care program operated in Portland. In 1994, with the advent of the Oregon Health Plan, FamilyCare became a fully capitated health plan operating as an HMO. In 2005 FamilyCare Health Plans implemented the PremierCare Medicare Advantage products. This allowed FamilyCare, Inc. to support its DUAL population with the transition to the Medicare Prescription Drug Program and allowed entry into the Medicare Advantage market. Our plan offers options in Clackamas, Clatsop, Morrow, Multnomah, Umatilla, and Washington counties in Oregon.
 
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