The network for the Humana Preferred plan will be in place from Jan. 1, 2009 through 2011. It is available only to members of the Business Health Care Group.
The coalition, which includes some of the area's largest employers, was organized to help lower health care costs in southeastern Wisconsin.
The network for the Humana Preferred health plan includes 4,500 doctors deemed to provide quality care at the lowest cost -- although it does not exclude individual physicians employed by health care systems.
The network also includes 30 area physicians. The most significant change in the network will be the addition of St. Nicholas in Sheboygan, Physicians Health Network and St. Joseph's in West Bend and the West Bend Clinic.
Other health systems that will remain part of the network include Aurora HealthCare and Medical Groups, Beloit Hospital and Physician Group, Columbia St. Mary's Hospital and Physician Group, Children's Hospital and Medical Group, Fort Atkinson Hospital and Physicians, Froedtert and Community Memorial Hospital, Medical Associates, Medical College of Wisconsin, Mercy Health System, ProHealth Care, Watertown Hospital and Physician Group and United Hospital Systems and Medical Group.
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