WellCare Health Plans, Inc. provides managed care services exclusively for government-sponsored healthcare programs, focusing on Medicaid and Medicare in the United States. It offers a range of Medicaid and Medicare plans, including health plans for families, children, the aged, blind and disabled, and prescription drug plans. The company’s Medicaid plans include plans for individuals, who are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, and recipients of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs, State Children’s Health Insurance programs (S-CHIP), and the Family Health Plus programs (FHP). The TANF program generally provides assistance to low-income families with children and the SSI program generally provides assistance to low-income aged, blind, or disabled individuals. S-CHIP and FHP programs are designed for families, who exceed the income thresholds for Medicaid. WellCare’s Medicare plans include stand-alone prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage plans, which include both Medicare coordinated care (MCC) plans and Medicare private fee-for-service plans. Medicare Advantage is Medicare’s managed care alternative to original Medicare fee-for-service, which individuals enroll into directly through Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. MCC plans are plans that are administered through a health maintenance organization and generally require members to seek health care services from a network of health care providers. PFFS plans are open-access plans that allow members to be seen by any physician or facility that participates in the Medicare program. As of December 31, 2006, it served approximately 2,258,000 members through a network of 50,000 physicians, 600 hospitals, and approximately 15,000 other ancillary providers and skilled nursing facilities. The company, formerly known as WellCare Group, Inc., was founded in 1985. WellCare is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.