Sentara Health Plans

Sentara Health Plans is a full-service health plan with products for groups and individuals, as well as Medicaid, and Medicare including Special Needs (SNP) plans. We have grown from a regional health plan into a formidable alternative to national carriers in Florida and Virginia, covering close to one million members.

In Florida, we offer commercial group, individual, and Medicare Advantage plans through AvMed, and we also offer a Florida-based provider services network (PSN)* through Sentara Care Alliance, a partnership between Universal Health Services, Inc., and Sentara Health. In Virginia - where Sentara Health Plans is headquartered - we offer health insurance through our extensive state-wide network, which includes operating as part of an integrated delivery network (IDN) with Sentara Health hospitals and providers.

Sentara Health Plans, previously known as Optima Health Plan, has been offering health coverage since 1984.** Sentara Health Plans is the health plan division of Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system that was itself founded in 1888. Sentara Health is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, and among the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the country. Over 130 years after its founding, Sentara Health continues to achieve operational excellence and to pursue its central mission - "we improve health every day".

*Sometimes referred to as a "provider sponsored network" or "integrated delivery network (IDN)".

**Optima Health Plan began issuing HMO plans under the same license in 1984, while Sentara Health Insurance Company (previously Optima Health Insurance Company) issued PPO Accident and Sickness plans starting in 1991.