Burbank, CA 91505-4542
(818) 637-2000
Regal Medical Group (RMG)
With a network spanning more than 5,000 square miles and thousands of health care providers, Regal Medical Group is part of one of Southern California's largest managed health networks. That size works to your advantage, allowing us to be there to coordinate all of your health care, when and where you need us. In spite of our size, we remain rooted in close community and operate upon the simple, traditional principles of knowing our customer, and providing respectful, personal, quality care.
At Regal, we know that navigating the healthcare system can be complicated for patients and for physicians. We also believe that during a visit to your doctor, the focus should be on health and wellness. You should be discussing things like prevention, diagnosis, treatment and healing, not coverage, networks, claims, regulations and billing. That's where an IPA, like Regal Medical Group, is able to serve both patients and physicians, by managing the business of managed care so that you don't have to.
Regal Medical Group works together with your healthcare plan and your PCP to keep things running smoothly. We collaborate with our physicians to provide quality care, while focusing on minimizing your out of pocket expenses. One way that we keep your overall health care costs low is by emphasizing preventative care in order to keep you healthy.
« BackSierra Medical Group (SMG)
Sierra Medical Group represents the future of medicine. Throughout our twenty five year history serving Antelope Valley, we have diligently invested our time and resources in the development of programs and services responsive to the healthcare needs of today's patient, while adapting to the increasingly diverse needs of tomorrow's health care agenda.
At SMG your health is our priority. An excellent team of specialty physicians who are either board certified or board eligible supports our primary care physicians providing you with a comprehensive healthcare network that is fully committed to your individual needs.
At SMG, we work hard to ensure that our patients receive quality medical care. This is why you will find easy access to your doctor, minimal waiting time for referrals, and staff members that genuinely care for your well-being.
« BackDesert Oasis Health Care (DOHC)
DOHC is a team of highly skilled primary care physicians and ancillary providers, servicing the community with all their health care needs from newborn to senior care. We have convenient locations throughout the Coachella Valley, Morongo Basin and Yucca Valley areas.
DOHC’s services include access to 6 Immediate and Urgent Care Centers - Bermuda Dunes, Indio, Palm Desert, Palm Springs and Yucca Valley. Our programs include Living and Aging Well, Home Health Services and Medication Management Services which are committed to improving your health proactively.
We are affiliated with every hospital in the Coachella Valley, which includes Eisenhower Memorial Hospital, Desert Regional Medical Center, John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital and Hi-Desert Medical Center.
« BackBakersfield Family Medical Center (BFMC)
Bakersfield Family Medical Center provides excellence in health care to our patients in professional settings that promote wellness and preventive medicine in Kern County. Throughout the twenty year history of our medical group, we have diligently invested our resources in the development of programs and services responsive to the healthcare needs of today’s patient while adapting to the increasingly diverse needs of tomorrow’s healthcare agenda.
Our facilities offer superior patient convenience by providing Urgent Care, Pharmacy, Lab, Radiology, Pediatrics and a variety of specialty services at one convenient site. In addition, the Heritage Physician Network is a group of physicians located throughout Kern County who have joined together to form an Independent Physicians Association (IPA). These IPA physicians remain affiliated with BFMC although they maintain their own individual offices. Members who choose physicians in Heritage Physician Network will see their selected doctors in their conveniently located private offices. All members of Heritage Physician Network can access the full range of services, programs and specialists offered by BFMC.
« BackCoastal Communities Physician Network (CCPN)
CCPN is an Independent Practice Association (IPA) formed in 2006, consisting of a network of contracted physicians located throughout the San Luis Obispo and Tulare counties. These IPA physicians are affiliated with BFMC/CCPN for the coordination of care rendered to members who have selected CCPN as their primary medical group. Members who choose physicians of CCPN will see their doctors in their conveniently located private offices and also have access to a whole network of out-of-area specialists. All members of CCPN can access a full range of services, programs and specialists through these contracted providers.
« BackHigh Desert Medical Group (HDMG)
HDMG has a long-standing promise to provide residents of the Antelope Valley with the highest quality health care possible. Living up to our promise is an on-going commitment, which necessitates our growth as a multi-specialty medical group providing a wide range of health care services for our patients. For more than 25 years, we've been fortunate to have an impressive team of health care professionals, administrators, support personnel and dedicated volunteers who work in unison to help us deliver on our promise.
Together, we partner with local hospitals, medical experts and business leaders, and we actively support numerous organizations, educational, cultural and recreational events. Our team of healthcare professionals is available and ready to help you with all of your medical needs. We accept over 85 different health plans, including HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, Private and Medicare plans. Our Lancaster facility offers the convenience of having your Primary Care Physician, Lab, X-Ray, Urgent Care, Pharmacy, a Health Education Department, Infusion Center, and a multitude of subspecialties all under the same roof. In addition, our Urgent Care is now open daily 6am - 8pm.
« BackHeritage Victor Valley Medical Group (HVVMG)
Heritage Victor Valley Medical Group has exceeded our members’ expectations since its inception in 2003 through personalized care by a staff of skilled professionals, a speedy referral system, and a panel of specialists to serve all your medical needs.
We believe the most important aspect of healthcare is tending to the personal needs of our patients. Our facilities are equipped with some of the finest diagnostic equipment and technicians available. We have the resources and commitment to always bring the best to meet the new challenges and ever-changing health care needs of the Victor Valley region.
« BackLakeside Medical Group (LMG)
Lakeside Medical Group is a comprehensive healthcare provider with a network of physicians and services throughout the San Fernando, San Gabriel and Santa Clarita Valleys, as well as parts of Ventura and San Bernardino Counties. We aim to deliver quality, affordable healthcare to the communities we serve.
We bring more than 20 years of innovation in healthcare delivery and management systems to our integrated network of services, which include hundreds of primary care physicians and over a thousand specialists; ancillary services, such as an outpatient surgery center, urgent care centers and physical therapy; and affiliations with premier hospitals, labs and other support services.
Our commitment to complete patient care includes developing new and better ways of delivering healthcare. From our approach to prevention and disease management to our hospitalist program and more, your care is coordinated so that you have the best possible outcomes.
« BackADOC Medical Group (ADOC)
ADOC Medical Group (ADOC) is an independent practice association, a medical group of over 275 private physicians and 600 specialty physicians who are dedicated to providing affordable, quality healthcare for individuals of all ages. We are affiliated with most major health plans, including many HMOs.
With offices throughout the greater Orange County area, chances are board-certified primary care physician and board certified specialists you need are in your own neighborhood.
Our goal is to help you make better care decisions for yourself and your family.
« BackHPN Announces Team POWERDOT Wins $500,000 As Current Leader
Media Contact for HPN:
Janet Janjigian, Carmen Group Westjanjigianj@carmengroup.com
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Provider Network announced today a $500,000 award to the current leading team, POWERDOT. HPN made the announcement at the Health Datapalooza Forum in Washington DC, and also revealed they will continue the $3million Heritage Health Prize competition until one of the leading teams reaches or exceeds the required benchmark.
"I am very happy to be awarding POWERDOT a $500,000 prize for their leading team effort," said Dr.Richard Merkin, President and CEO of Heritage Provider Network. "We are so encouraged by the results seen in the last two years, we will continue the competition and allow the top eligible leading teams access to an even broader data set to try to accelerate a successful benchmark performance by one of the teams."
The prize challenges entrants to create an algorithm that predicts how many days a patient will spend in the hospital. Created, developed and sponsored by Dr. Merkin, President and CEO of HPN, the goal of the prize is to decrease the number of avoidable hospitalizations, saving the country more than $40billion in preventable hospitalization costs.
"I would like to thank the entire community of over 1,500 of the world's best and brightest data scientists who worked so diligently with this massive healthcare data set," said Dr, Merkin. "I want to encourage the eligible teams to take advantage of the continuing competition and bring us solutions as soon as possible. They can help us harness big data to provide healthier outcomes and lower the cost of healthcare for American families."
POWERDOT is comprised of data miners, researchers, information analysts and a hedge fund manager in what is truly a global union of the world's best data scientists.
"We hope our methodologies developed during the competition are utilized to identify preventable health risks more accurately while supporting universal improved clinical outcomes, access and cost." said David Vogel, POWERDOT team captain. "Combining the expertise of premier professionals and leveraging expert to expert collaboration created outstanding results. Our team is honored and excited to receive this award," he continued. "The personal commitment Dr. Merkin made to fund this opportunity shows great passion and support for the use of advanced modeling as an additional cure in healthcare delivery."
Team POWERDOT consists of former rivals and cash progress prize winners who fought it out independently, joining forces last October to form this leading powerhouse group. Team members include David Vogel, Chief Scientist of Voloridge Investment Management, Dr. Randy Axelrod, Executive VP, Providence Health &Services, Rie Johnson, a machine learning researcher, Willem Mestrom, Business Intelligence specialist at Independer, from the Netherlands, Edward de Grijs, an engineer and software developer also from the Netherlands, Tong Zhang, a machine learning researcher, and Phil Brierley, Analytics Consultant, Tiberius Data Mining from Australia. Vogel, Axelrod, Brierley and de Grijs accepted the $500,000 check on behalf of the group at the announcement.
"I want to congratulate all the members of POWERDOT, they did an outstanding job of besting more than 39,000 entries from 40 different countries," said Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle, the company running the prize. "Now that the prize has been extended and the data will be de-anonymized, the leading teams will have opportunities to go beyond the current winning algorithms and prevent even more hospitalizations."
HPN will hold a media opportunity today at 12pm-1pm EDT at the Datapalooza Forum in the Directors Room for media interested in learning more about this announcement. Call in number for media is Toll Free Number: 888-942-9865 Participant passcode: 4992286.
"Heritage has long been a strong partner with health plans and government payers who daily struggle to manage cost and care improvement from a distance. This kind of innovative prize solution can help accelerate patient centric, physician initiatives that can help us all," said Mark Wagar, President of Heritage Medical Systems and former health plan CEO. Wager will be available during the media opportunity.
The Heritage Health Prize is one of a number of competitions Dr. Merkin is sponsoring in HPN's ongoing efforts to spur innovation harnessing big data to reduce costs. HPN will also announce the winner of the "Heritage, UCLA, Open mHealth" mobile apps prize competition at Datapalooza on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at 11:45am EDT.
"Every day we work to provide high quality, coordinated and cost effective care for our patients. Our prize contests are just one way we are addressing systemic issues in care management and developing new solutions to solve the big challenges in health care," said Dr. Merkin.
ABOUT HPN:
Heritage Provider Network, Inc. (HPN) is on the cutting edge of the accountable care model of healthcare delivery: coordinated, patient-doctor centric, integrated health care systems that represent the future of health care in the United States. HPN and its affiliates operate in California, New York and Arizona providing high quality, cost effective healthcare to over 700,000 individuals and are dedicated to quality, affordable health care, and putting patients' wellness first. (www.heritageprovidernetwork.com)
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Team POWERDOT Accepts $500,000 Award from Mark Wagar, President of Heritage Medical Systems. (PRNewsFoto/Heritage Provider Network, Inc.)
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Dr Randy Axelrod, Phil Brierley, Edward deGrijs, David Vogel, team captain and Mark Wagar, HPN