Syracuse Community Health Center’s Total Care Medicaid Managed Care Plan Is Set To Be Acquired By Universal American

Circle Connections: Mergers & Acquisitions A publicly traded Fortune 500 company is buying the Syracuse area's biggest Medicaid managed care plan that is mired in financial problems. Universal American Corp., a health insurer headquartered in Rye Brook, is buying Total Care from the Syracuse Community Health Center, a nonprofit that provides primary care to mostly poor and uninsured patients at 15 locations in the Syracuse area. The health center founded Total Care in 1987 and operates the plan out of its headquarters at 819 S. Salina St. The sale is expected to close Dec. 1. Robert Waegelein, Universal's . . .