VA Clinic provides Veterans primary and preventive health services
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Health Net Federal Services, LLC, part of the Government Contracts segment of Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT), today announced it was awarded a contract by the New Mexico Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System (NMVAHCS) to provide primary and preventive health services to an estimated 1,000 Veterans in a newly established VA Contract Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CCBOC) in Taos, N.M. The new facility is anticipated to open on October 3, 2011.
“Health Net is pleased to partner with NMVAHCS to offer primary care, mental health and other specialty services to Veterans in the Taos community,” said Donna Hoffmeier, Health Net’s vice president and VA Program executive. “The new clinic will offer the latest telemedicine technologies in addition to personalized health services designed to help meet the unique needs of Veterans enrolled in the clinic.”
For more information on the Taos CCBOC, Veterans may contact the NMVAHCS Primary Care Medicine Telephone and Scheduling Call Center at 1-800-465-8262, press 5, then press 5 again.
About Health Net
Health Net, Inc. is a publicly traded managed care organization that delivers managed health care services through health plans and government-sponsored managed care plans. Its mission is to help people be healthy, secure and comfortable. The company provides health benefits to approximately 6.0 million individuals across the country through group, individual, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly referred to as “Part D”), Medicaid, Department of Defense, including TRICARE, and Veterans Affairs programs. Health Net’s behavioral health services subsidiary, Managed Health Network, Inc., provides behavioral health, substance abuse and employee assistance programs to approximately 5.1 million individuals, including Health Net’s own health plan members. The company’s subsidiaries also offer managed health care products related to prescription drugs, and offer managed health care product coordination for multi-region employers and administrative services for medical groups and self-funded benefits programs.
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