Indiana University Health Plans NFP

Indiana University Health Plans NFP, Inc. ("iu Health Plans NFP") operates as a Health maintenance organization ("hmo") that holds a contract with the federal centers for medicaid and medicare services, a division of the federal department of Health and human services, to be a medicare advantage organization. Medicare advantage organizations are required to provide adequate access to comprehensive Health care services for medicare beneficiaries through a contracted network of Health care providers. To be considered adequate, the network must have a sufficient number of Health care providers within an acceptable distance of the medicare beneficiaries. The corporation uses Indiana University Health, Inc. ("iu Health") as a Health care delivery system to deliver and arrange for Health care services to medicare beneficiaries. Iu Health maintains a network of providers throughout the state of Indiana. Iu Health Plans NFP's hmo business is limited to the medicare advantage program. The corporation does not currently nor does it intend in the future to provide hmo coverage in the commercial, individual, or group Health insurance markets.