MEDINCREASE HEALTH PLANS, LLC
MADEIRA BEACH, FLORIDA

MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP) is a national, directly-contracted, multi-specialty PPO provider network utilized by Commercial Health, Workers’ Compensation and Auto Medical payer clients. The MHP participating provider network is comprised of hospitals, primary care physicians, specialty physicians, facilities, ancillary and complimentary providers located throughout the United States. MHP offers its clients/payers substantial savings on medical expenditures via use of its directly contracted provider network, claim negotiations, and medical bill audit services. Clients include insurance companies, third party administrators (TPAs), self-insured employer groups, medical management companies, and other managed care organizations. MHP offers its providers an opportunity for increased utilization, retention of existing patients, prompt payment of claims, simplified administrative procedures and a very competitive reimbursement arrangement. MHP continues to offer its clients and providers unsurpassed, personalized customer MediNcrease Health Plans, LLC was founded in 2013 by a team of health care industry leaders with approximately 150 collective years in the provider network business. Most recently, the same leadership team built a highly successful national participating provider network, which was sold in 2011 to one of the nation’s largest provider networks. The team came back together to build a new network model with more value for both providers and payers. Linda Plaster has over 35 years of experience in the managed care industry. Prior to founding MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP), Ms. Plaster founded Integrated Health Plan in 1997 and sold the company to Multiplan in 2011. Linda was instrumental in developing several other national provider networks in the 1990s. In the early 1990s and throughout the 1980s, she owned and operated a managed care consulting firm, served as director of managed care for two hospital systems, developed a hospital based managed care program (Integrated Delivery System), and held positions with Av-Med, a Florida based HMO, and with CIGNA Healthplan of Florida where she worked in the Marketing, Utilization and Finance Departments and played a role in building the organization from start-up to becoming the largest HMO in the Tampa Bay area. Carol Fant is MediNcrease’s (MHP’s) Executive Vice President and Corporate Counsel. Ms. Fant provides legal and business counsel to MHP on corporate matters. Prior to working with MHP, Ms. Fant served as General Counsel for Integrated Health Plan for 15 years. Ms. Fant has practiced law for 26 years. She earned her law degree from Stetson University College of Law and is licensed in the state of Florida. Tom Tharp is the Chief Operating Officer of MediNcrease. Mr. Tharp has responsibility over internal operations, which includes database management, network development, information technology, production and human resources. Mr. Tharp brings over 25 years of senior management experience to MediNcrease. Prior to joining MediNcrease, Mr. Tharp served 9 years as Chief Operating Officer of Integrated Health Plan. He earned his B.S. from University of Puget Sound and M.S. from Baylor University. Patricia Dysart is the General Counsel of MediNcrease. Ms. Dysart is responsible for all aspects of the company’s legal and regulatory compliance, contracting initiatives, and also serves as the company’s Privacy and Security Officer. Prior to joining MediNcrease, Ms. Dysart served over 7 years as Assistant General Counsel of Integrated Health Plan. Ms. Dysart has been practicing law for almost 29 years, including over 7 years with State Farm Insurance, and has almost 13 years’ experience in the provider network and cost containment business. Ms. Dysart earned her law degree from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, where she was an editor and published author on law review. She is licensed in Missouri and Illinois, and is certified as an Authorized House Counsel by The Florida Bar (but is not a member of The Florida Bar). Senior Vice President, Product Management Jeremy Perkinson is the SVP, Product Management, of MediNcrease. Mr. Perkinson oversees all aspects of daily production, including management of the negotiation team. He has spent the last 10 years overseeing operations for National Bill Audit Services, LLC. Mr. Perkinson brings a wealth of knowledge to MediNcrease in the areas of medical billing, plan design, and provider contracting. Mr. Perkinson also coordinated organ transplant activities for Integrated Health Plan. He earned his BS in Business Management and Marketing from the University of South Dakota. Rich Wheat is the SVP, Information Technology, of MediNcrease. Mr. Wheat has over 13 years’ experience in IT management. He is currently responsible for managing all IT operations at MediNcrease, including; personnel, infrastructure, security, applications development, database management/administration, business partner and client data exchange, software, and hardware. He most recently served 9 years as Director of Information Technology, of Integrated Health Plan. He earned his BS in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico. Christian Clark assists MediNcrease with marketing and sales initiatives and is the past President of MediNcrease. Prior to joining MediNcrease, he served as Vice President of Corporate Development for Integrated Health Plan, and most recently as Vice President of Sales and Account Management at MultiPlan. Mr. Clark brings more than 15 years’ experience in the provider network and cost containment business. Mission MHP’s mission is to offer a quality provider network to our clients/payers for use by insured members; to reduce medical claim expenditures for our clients/payers; to reduce-out-of-pocket expenses and balance billing issues for covered persons; to offer providers the opportunity for increased utilization, retention of existing patients, prompt payment of claims, simplified administrative procedures, and a competitive reimbursement arrangement; and to offer exceptional service to our clients, providers and patients that use the MHP provider network.