Sutter Health Cools on California MPNs

Less than a year after creating a medical provider network for Northern California employers, Sutter Health has backed off its plan to market the workers' compensation service. Sacramento-based Sutter Health operates 26 hospitals in Northern California, 12 occupational health clinics in the region, and provides industrial medicine services to 15,000 employers in the state. The company last spring announced it would enter the medical provider network business created by passage of SB 899. Six employers signed up for its medical provider networks, and the demand for MPN services in 2005 fell b...