Amerigroup

                                                           AMERIGROUP

Amerigroup, a completely claimed auxiliary of Anthem Inc., is a United States medical coverage and oversaw social insurance supplier. Amerigroup covers 7.7 million seniors, individuals with incapacities, low-wage families and other state and governmentally supported recipients, and elected workers in 26 states, making it the country's biggest supplier of medicinal services for open projects.

Substance

History 

Amerigroup started as AMERICAID Community Care in 1994 and was at first gone for the medicinal services issues of kids, moms and pregnant ladies selected in Medicaid. Amerigroup turned into a traded on an open market enterprise in the fall of 2001. In 2006, Amerigroup entered the Medicare Advantage program, serving low-salary individuals who are qualified for both Medicare and Medicaid through extraordinary needs arranges. In 2007, Amerigroup started the operation of customary Medicare Advantage arranges. Presently, Amerigroup offers medicinal services administrations through three government programs that objective distinctive fragments of the nation's low-wage populace: Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicare.On July 9, 2012, Anthem Inc. (at that point known as WellPoint) went into a consent to get Amerigroup Corporation for $4.9 billion.

Social insurance Products

As of Dec. 31, 2012:

Kids' Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

An oversaw social insurance item for uninsured kids not qualified for Medicaid. This item is intended for the SCHIP activity.

Seniors and People with Disabilities (S/PD)

An oversaw medicinal services item intended for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries. This populace comprises of low-salary SPD.

Provisional Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

A Medicaid oversaw medicinal services item. This item is intended for the TANF populace that comprises fundamentally of low-pay youngsters and their moms

FamilyCare

An oversaw medicinal services item centered around uninsured grown-ups and guardians of CHIP or Medicaid-qualified youngsters.

Medicare Advantage

Medicare wellbeing arranges concentrating on low-pay Medicare recipients, comprising of normal Medicare arrangements and Special Needs Plans for double qualified recipients with both Medicare and Medicaid.

National Advisory Board

In 2007, Amerigroup built up the National Advisory Board (NAB) to concentrate on addressing the necessities of seniors and individuals with handicaps, who are a huge extent of its customers. The NAB gives approach proposals to enhancing projects and administrations for seniors and individuals with incapacities. Assembled by Lex Frieden, who was instrumental in considering and drafting the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the NAB is comprised of 19 group advocates, social insurance specialists and scholastics. The NAB supported that the modernized human services foundation be required to address the issues of individuals with inabilities and seniors.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Amerigroup Foundation

The principle objectives of the Amerigroup Foundation are to cultivate access to mind, energize sheltered and solid kids and families, and advance group change and sound neighborhoods.In the previous year, the Foundation contributed more than $3 million to different group associations over the United States. Since initiation, the Foundation has recompensed $17.3 million to group wellbeing focuses, administration associations, and neighborhood programs.

Volunteerism

Amerigroup has a Community Volunteers program, made to perceive and bolster the commitments representatives make in groups the nation over and to motivate others to volunteer.All Amerigroup workers get a paid three day weekend every year to do charitable effort in their groups.

Medicaid Fraud

Terminated Executive Cleveland Tyson furnished government prosecutors with proof that Amerigroup was deliberately declining administrations to low-pay pregnant ladies in Illinois from 2001 to 2003. Their agreement with the state required that they enlist every single qualified customer, however prosecutors submitted messages demonstrating that Amerigroup had a strategy of focusing on solid enrollees and particularly prohibited pregnant ladies and others with costly conditions. In October 2006, a government jury discovered Amerigroup obligated for $48 million in harms, which was tripled by statute to $144 million. In March 2007, an extra fine of over $190 million was demanded for 18,000 false cases. In the wake of engaging the judgments, Amerigroup concurred in July 2008 to settle the charges for $225 million. As an informant, qui tam procurements qualified Tyson for $56 million of the settlement.