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HMO, INC. which under his leadership became this 5th largest
Medicaid HMO in the United States. In 1999, he acquired 55% of Kingston N.Y.-based WellCare Management Group Inc, which managed two HMO's in Connecticut and New York. In 2002, he sold majority share in the WellCare Management Group, at which point WellCare Management was providing services to over 400,000 members. In 2007, Patel started a new insurance holding company called America's 1st Choice Holdings of Florida and acquired two Tampa Bay based Medicare Advantage Health Plans, Freedom Health and Optimum Health. He grew these companies to over 115,000 members and over $ 1 billion in revenue, at which point he sold to Anthem in April 2019.
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Freedom was manipulating enrollment rolls. Patel and his brother Rupesh Shah were among the named defendants. The complaint also alleged that Freedom was engaging in service-area-expansion fraud —
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in 1982, Patel began his practice as a cardiologist. In 1985, he started a physicians practice ownership and management company, which quickly expanded to 14 practices including family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and cardiology. In 1992, Patel became chairman of the board of Well Care
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Concept Medical. He committed to gift $ 50 million and an additional $ 150 million towards real estate and facility expansion in the medical education complex that will be part of NSU’s Tampa Bay Regional Campus, in Clearwater.
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misrepresenting the number of health-care providers in its network in certain counties so that it could expand the areas in which it offered
Medicare Advantage. Once the investigation was announced, Patel told employees "not to destroy documents or other evidence" in an emergency meeting.
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Pagidipati, paid seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to settle charges related to his role in the alleged service-area-expansion fraud. Neither admitted liability.
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for the Patel Center for Global Solutions and College of Global Sustainability.
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with whom he jointly purchased English football (soccer) club
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in 2002. He is not seeking treatment for the condition.
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455:"Drs. Kiran C. and Pallavi Patel"
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