Texas Mutual Insurance Company Selects Concentra to Provide Workers' Compensation Health Care Network in Texas
Posted on: Thursday, 30 March 2006, 15:00 CST
ADDISON, Texas, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Concentra Inc. ("Concentra"), the nation's leading provider of workers' compensation medical services and cost management solutions, including occupational healthcare networks, announced today it was selected by Texas Mutual Insurance Company for their Texas Star Network(SM) offering in response to House Bill 7. Passed by the Texas Legislature in 2005, House Bill 7 is a workers' compensation regulatory reform bill designed to improve quality and access to care, control costs for Texas employers, and achieve higher return-to-work outcomes.
A major provision of House Bill 7 allows insurance carriers like Texas Mutual Insurance Company to contract with or establish medical networks. Injured workers covered by the network and residing in a network geographic service area must select their treating doctor from a list of approved occupational health care providers. Texas Star Network(SM) case managers will work with injured workers, employers, and health care providers to facilitate appropriate and cost-effective healthcare and return-to-work treatment plans. Texas Mutual Insurance has chosen to partner with Concentra to create the Texas Star Network(SM) offer.
"Texas Mutual Insurance Company has entrusted Concentra to manage the care of their policyholders and injured employees," said Bruce Singleton, Vice President, Product Development, Concentra Network Services. "Our mission is to help injured workers gain greater access to quality care by providing the right medical providers that deliver consistent appropriate treatment. We look forward to working closely with the Texas Mutual Insurance Company to deliver positive injured-employee outcomes for their policyholders."
"On-the-job accidents carry both human and monetary costs," said Lisa Corless, Texas Mutual(R) Senior Vice President of Claim and Information Services. "We created the Texas Star Network(SM) option to give us additional tools to help ensure both the availability of quality medical providers and cost management effectiveness by allowing injured workers to select their doctor from a specialized network of right providers. After a comprehensive review process, we determined that Concentra was the right affiliate for this major initiative."
About Concentra
Concentra Operating Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Concentra Inc., is dedicated to improving the quality of life by making healthcare accessible and affordable. Serving the occupational, auto and group healthcare markets, Concentra provides employers, insurers and payors with a series of integrated services that include employment-related injury and occupational healthcare, in-network and out-of-network medical claims review and repricing, access to preferred provider organizations, first notice of loss services, case management and other cost containment services. Concentra provides its services to approximately 136,000 employer locations and 3,700 insurance companies, group health plans, third-party administrators and other healthcare payors. The Company has 300 health centers located in 40 states. It also operates the Beech Street and FOCUS networks. These provider networks include 544,000 providers, 52,000 ancillary providers and 4,400 acute-care hospitals nationwide.
About Concentra's Solutions for new Texas Workers' Compensation Requirements
To specifically meet our clients' needs, Concentra has developed a suite of integrated offerings from its Concentra Health Services, Inc.(R) and Concentra Network Services(TM) divisions. This integrated set of products and services includes the design and development of a network of physicians experienced in treating occupational injuries, which will provide a "right- tight" network of specialized providers. This network is designed to reduce over-utilization, shorten case durations, promote accelerated return-to-work and decrease the total cost of workers' compensation claims. At the core of this network are 40 Concentra Medical Centers and over 100 providers from our Expanded Medical Center community, as well as highly effective early intervention and claims outcomes assurance work processes.
Concentra Inc.
CONTACT: Vicki Bryant of Concentra Inc., +1-214-263-8402, orvicki_bryant@concentra.com
Source: PRNewswire
Related Articles
- Longtop to Acquire Sysnet, One of China's Top Ten Insurance IT Service Providers
- Positive Networks Partners With Jamcracker to Offer Hosted Security Solutions to Communication Services Providers and Resellers
- Force10 Networks Transforms Service Provider Network Economics With Introduction of Cost-Effective Packet Over SONET
- Schryver Selects Medicity EHR; Service Provider Schryver Medical of Denver Selected Medicity ProAccess EHR to Help Make Ordering Easier and Clinical Results More Accessible to Physicians
- Montana Businesses Getting Help to Provide Worker Health Insurance
- Top Layer Networks Selected By Service Provider Weekly As ''Top 50 Vendors'' Award Recipient; Publication Recognizes Top Layer's Leadership in Providing Intrusion Prevention Systems for Protecting Service Provider Networks
- Cisco Systems to Acquire Sheer Networks; Enhances Service Provider Network Management Offerings
- HP Launches Program to Deliver Complete, Integrated Telecom Platforms to Network and Service Providers
- Lucent Technologies and Riverstone Networks Sign Alliance to Deliver Converged Ethernet Networks For Service Providers
- BellSouth Grows Network VPN Services to Provide Additional Data Transport Capabilities for Businesses
 |
 |
User Comments (0)
RSS Feeds