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StudioTulsa on Health: Concerning CommunityCare, the Tulsa-Based Medical Insurance Company

Aired on Monday, October 21st.

On this edition of StudioTulsa on Health, guest host John Henning Schumann speaks with Dr. Jack Sommers, chief medical officer for CommunityCare, the Tulsa-based medical insurance firm that's owned and operated by Saint Francis Hospital and St. John Medical Center. (This company began as CommunityCare HMO in 1993; you can read a full history for CommunityCare here.) In an interesting and wide-ranging discussion, Dr. Sommers addresses how CommunityCare works, how it has grown and changed over the years, how its "local roots" set apart from various other managed-care organizations, and how it will be affected --- or, rather, how it's already being affected --- by the newly activated Affordable Care Act. Dr. Sommers also shares a bit about his own background and development as a doctor, as a business executive, and as a sort of hybrid (given his current post at CommunityCare) of the two.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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