NCPPO and HealthLink
service areas include:Maryland, Northern Virginia, Washington DC, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Ohio and Kentucky. NCPPO and HealthLink also provides a national network solution for clients with enrollees who reside or travel outside the service area.
Competitive Discounts
A disciplined approach to fixed payment methodologies, precisemodeling/forecasting of rate changes and actuarial calculations allows us to establish aggressive pricing targets by market and product.
Plan Performance Management
Sophisticated rate modeling techniques analyze and evaluate how current market trends, enrollee demographics and client objectives affect plan design. We make this information available to you so that you may evaluate your health benefit program and have the ability to recognize the cost/benefit of changing or adding programs and services when the time is right.
Stability
The NCPPO and HealthLink network program allocates substantial administrative resources to contracted physicians and facilities to ensure retention rates well above the market average. Our provider retention rate of 98% reflects the high levels of satisfaction that have become a NCPPO and HealthLink standard.
National Capital Preferred Provider Organization, Inc. ("NCPPO") is a Maryland corporation. HealthLink®, Inc., is an Illinois corporation. Both are organizers of independently contracted provider networks, which are made available by contract to a variety of payors of health benefits, including insurers, third party administrators or employers. Neither has control nor right of control over the professional, medical judgment of contracted providers, nor are they liable for any acts or failures to act, by contracted providers. Neither is an insurance company and neither has liability for benefits under benefit plans offered or administered by payors. HealthLink® is a registered trademark of HealthLink, Inc. Both companies are subsidiaries of WellPoint, Inc.