Ingenix

Headquarters: Eden Prairie
Revenues: $1.65 billion
Employees: 4,500 worldwide
Clients: Insurance companies, physicians, hospitals, private business, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, government agencies.
Provides: consumer tools, claims-processing data, fraud detection, risk forecasting, disease prevention programs, management of coding and reimbursement systems.

Tags: business, companies, fraud, insurance, insurance companies, risk

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