Datapoint: Sanford, Marshfield Clinic to Merge
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based health system Sanford Health — the largest rural health system in the U.S. — on July 10 unveiled plans to combine with Marshfield Clinic Health System, which serves rural Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The combined system would comprise of 56 hospitals, 4,300 providers and two integrated health plans, Sanford Health Plan and Marshfield Clinic’s Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc. “This partnership is a win-win for the patients and communities we serve, and for our organizations that have had a long tradition of innovation, physician leadership and dedicated caregivers,” Sanford Health Board of Trustees Chair Lauris Molbert said in a press release. “This combination will strengthen local, patient-centered nonprofit health care for generations to come.” Sanford Health enrolls 197,865 members across the upper Midwest, with 71% of members in commercial risk-based products. Security Health Plan currently enrolls 221,604 members in its home state, serving employer groups, Medicare Advantage and the state’s managed Medicaid program.
Source: AIS’s Directory of Health Plans
