A Midwestern arm of Coventry Health Care Inc. is setting up new Medicare operations in Iowa.[@@]
Coventry, Bethesda, Md., says a subsidiary in West Des Moines, Iowa, has started selling Medicare health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organization plans in a market that includes Black Hawk, Dallas, Polk, Scott and Warren counties in Iowa. The market is home to about 106,000 Medicare beneficiaries, Coventry says.