West Hartford, CT and San Antonio, TX — Baptist Health System, a leader in South Texas medical care, is joining Averde Health, an innovative healthcare network specifically engineered for High Deductible Health Benefits. The network is designed to help control the cost of health care while at the same time increasing profitability for doctors and hospitals.
Averde Health CEO Tom Policelli remarked "Even when people have health insurance, the increasing deductibles can often leave them owing thousands of dollars. When patients are unable to pay their part of the health care cost, it means hospitals and physicians must often write off bad debts. That drives up costs and creates an ongoing upward cycle of price increases to compensate. The Averde model was designed to reverse that trend and help eliminate the blizzard of paperwork that can be overwhelming for consumers in high deductible plans."
All five Baptist hospitals in San Antonio will participate in the Averde network, which offers guarantees to patients, physicians and hospitals. Averde promises to pay doctors and hospitals 100 percent of patient balances including coinsurance and deductibles for members who use Averde’s network. In addition, patients who use Averde's network are given "simplicity, security, and savings" which means greatly reduced paperwork, assistance in managing what they owe and more affordable cost. This combination means that Averde members should never have to get collection calls or letters from in-network doctors or hospitals.
Baptist Health System VP of Managed Care Tom Shock said "We believe the benefits of membership in the Averde network are consistent with Baptist Health System's mission of providing the highest-quality health care in a compassionate Christian environment. It is especially rewarding to find a program that is not only good business for Baptist, but more importantly, is good for our patients."
About Baptist Health System
Baptist Health System, based in San Antonio, has more than 1,600 licensed beds in its five acute-care hospitals. The system also operates Baptist Regional Children’s Center, Baptist Cancer Center, HealthLink wellness and fitness center, Baptist M&S Imaging Centers, community health and wellness programs, ambulatory services, rehabilitation services, medical office buildings, San Antonio AirLIFE air medical transport, a teaching center and other health-related services and affiliations.
About Averde Health
Averde Health is building networks across the country, and expects to enter more than 20 markets in the next 24 months. It offers health care providers assurance that they will promptly be paid all they are owed. It offers patients easier-to-understand paperwork and guaranteed access to credit to pay medical bills if needed. Because providers get paid more, better and faster, many have offered their most competitive terms to members of Averde’s network. For more information, on Averde Health, please visit www.averdehealth.com.
Media Contact
Averde Health, Inc.
Roberta Wachtelhausen
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
(860) 270-0243
bert@averdehealth.com
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