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Samaritan Health Plans provides customers with:
  • A comprehensive provider network
  • A quality medical management program
  • Commitment to customer service
  • Cost-effective, consumer-driven managed health care services
As part of Samaritan Health Services, Samaritan Health Plans represents an organization with more than 75 years of service to Oregonians in Linn, Benton and Lincoln Counties. Unlike most managed care organizations which are accountable to shareholders, Samaritan Health Plans is ultimately accountable to a Board of Directors consisting of volunteers from the local communities it serves. Samaritan's sole interest has been and will continue to be the service of local residents, employers and communities.

Samaritan Health Plans Mission

Samaritan Health Plans, a state-licensed Insurance Company, is a fiscally and socially responsible health care service contractor working to create greater value through comprehensive managed health care services for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries and members of the public.

Samaritan Health Plans will ensure coordination of high quality care in the communities it serves. SHPlans conduct will be beneficiary focused and delivered with compassion and efficiency. We will work within State and Federal guidelines while balancing the interest of our beneficiaries with that of the community as a whole.

Samaritan Health Plans will uphold the Samaritan Health Services name and core values while providing local, personalized services and bringing the community increased choice and improved access across the health care continuum.

History

Samaritan Health Plans, Inc. operates as a division of Samaritan Health Services.

Samaritan Health Plans (SHPlans) was founded in 2004 by Samaritan Health Services (SHS). As the primary health service network in the region, Samaritan Health Services has significant expertise in initiating and implementing programs to enhance health care throughout its service area, and was formed for the purpose of providing a comprehensive system of health care and health-related services to residents of the Mid-Willamette Valley, Oregon Coast and other Oregon communities.

Samaritan Health Services was established in 1997 as a non-profit network of hospitals, physicians and senior care facilities serving the 250,000 residents of Linn, Benton and Lincoln counties. - Regional services include comprehensive cancer care, a full array of cardiac services, an inpatient mental health unit, Level 2 trauma center, dialysis treatment, and other specialty services.

Being part of a large integrated delivery system like SHS gives SHPlans an advantage through its infrastructure of facilities, information systems, providers, and pharmacies and health plans. The history of this infrastructure is very stable and growing. In 2001, SHS signed a management agreement with North Lincoln Hospital and in 2002 with Pacific Communities Hospital to manage the hospital and facilities in those areas. SHS has become a model system and others in the medical industry are looking to SHS as a benchmark.

Additionally, SHS is the parent company to InterCommunity Health Network (IHN) and Samaritan Choice Plans (SCP).

Samaritan Health Plans Inc. was granted its State Certificate of Authority in January 2004.

Areas of Operation

Samaritan Health Plans, Inc., and Samaritan Health Services serve more than 25,000 members throughout the Mid-Willamette Valley. Members are enrolled in one of Samaritan Health Service's primary Insurance products: InterCommunity Health Network (Medicaid), Samaritan Choice Plans (self-funded) and Samaritan Advantage Health Plan (Medicare Advantage Plan).