After its 2023 bankruptcy restructuring, Envision Healthcare slowly began to rebuild its leadership team and clinical operations. Despite a recent legal setback in California, the company maintains its vision is to become "America's leading medical group."
Here are 12 things to know about Envision's operations, financial history and leadership:
Operations
- Envision Healthcare is a medical group based in Nashville, Tenn.
- The company manages physicians and clinicians working in health systems across the U.S. through its Envision Physician Services network.
- Envision manages physicians and clinicians who practice across multiple specialties: anesthesiology, critical care medicine, emergency medicine, hospital medicine, radiology and women's and children's medicine.
- The company does not publicly disclose the states in which it operates, but it currently is hiring healthcare professionals in Texas, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, WIsconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire, according Envision's website.
- In July, Envision told Becker's the company had stopped staffing operations in California after reaching a settlement with the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, which had sued the company over its business model.
- According to the company's "2023 Clinical Report," published June 27, Envision manages 16,000 clinicians at 800 locations.
- Envision reported 19 million patient encounters, including 8 million emergency department encounters, in its "2023 Clinical Report."
Finance
- In May 2023, Envision announced it had filed for bankruptcy. The company's ambulatory surgery division, Amsburg, was split from Envision Physician Services as part of restructuring. Amsburg now operates under new ownership.
- UnitedHealthcare was ordered to pay Envision $91 million in May 2023 after an underpayment dispute went through arbitration.
Leadership
- Envision formed a new board of directors in January. Its members are Steve Nelson, Fredrik Eliasson, Mark Stolper, Loretta Cecil, Harold Paz, MD, and Debbie Osteen.
- Envision named Jason Owen president and CEO in April; he previously had served as president and CEO of BlueSpring.
- Envision appointed Dominic Andreano as the company's general counsel in June; he previously had served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at Pediatrix.
Editor's note: This article was updated Aug. 23 at 10:38 a.m. CT.