One provider network company has closed on a deal for another provider network company.
MultiPlan Inc., New York, says it has completed a previously announced acquisition of Private Healthcare Systems Inc., Waltham, Mass.
PHCS, which was owned by a consortium of managed care companies, has a network with 450,000 provider offices that serve 16 million patients.
The MultiPlan network has contracts with 700,000 provider offices that service 27 million patients.