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PACIFICARE HEALTH SYSTEMS company history timeline

1975

PacifiCare was founded as a nonprofit corporation by Samuel J. Tibbitts of the Lutheran Hospital Society of Southern California in 1975 and became a federally qualified health maintenance organization (HMO) three years later.

1983

PacifiCare was incorporated in 1983 and, like many other HMOs, switched to for-profit status the following year.

1985

In 1985, PacifiCare created its first subsidiary outside California: PacifiCare of Oregon.

1992

Mounting debt, which totaled nearly $200 million by the end of fiscal 1992 on September 30, compelled several changes in PacifiCare's stock.

The plan became California's largest Medicare risk program in 1992, and went national as Secure Horizons USA the following year.

The company was ranked among Working Mother magazine's 1992 list of the 100 best companies for working parents by virtue of its child care assistance and family leave programs.

1993

The company was renamed PacifiCare Wellness Company in 1993.

1994

A 1994 study by the American Academy of Actuaries endorsed the application of managed care's cost-cutting techniques to mental health care.

2003

By 2003, the cuts had been restored, bringing profitability to PacifiCare, whose $85.7 million in net income for this year's first quarter was up 28 percent from a year earlier, exceeding analysts' forecasts.

2005

Correction: July 8, 2005, Friday An article in Business Day last Friday about Congressional opposition to the purchase of Unocal by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation referred incorrectly in some copies to the party of Representative Jim Moran, who opposed an effort to block the takeover.

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