A&G Healthcare Services Announces Expansion of Amera-Net® Its National Travel Wrap PPO Network

A&G Healthcare Services announced recently the expansion of their eight-year-old Amera-Net travel wrap PPO product. Amera-Net consists of over 55,000 facilities, ancillary providers and one million medical professionals. The expanded service is specifically designed to help payors and employer groups save significant dollars and control skyrocketing insurance claims costs when their members travel outside of their primary PPO network coverage. Amera-Net is a nationwide secondary PPO that wraps around an employer groups local primary PPO network. Like a primary PPO, Amera-Net negotiates with providers nationwide for discounts on medical services. Therefore, employer groups are not liable to pay retail fees when their members travel and receive medical care outside of their primary coverage area.

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) October 30, 2003 --- A&G Healthcare Services announced recently the expansion of their eight-year-old Amera-Net travel wrap PPO product. Amera-Net consists of over 55,000 facilities, ancillary providers and one million medical professionals. The expanded service is specifically designed to help payors and employer groups save significant dollars and control skyrocketing insurance claims costs when their members travel outside of their primary PPO network coverage. Amera-Net is a nationwide secondary PPO that wraps around an employer groups local primary PPO network. Like a primary PPO, Amera-Net negotiates with providers nationwide for discounts on medical services. Therefore, employer groups are not liable to pay retail fees when their members travel and receive medical care outside of their primary coverage area.

Without Amera-Nets protective wrap, payors and employer groups are at the mercy of whatever fees a provider might charge for medical services rendered. Clients of Amera-Net, such as TPAs, insurance companies, HMOs and re-insurance companies, simply add the Amera-Net Logo to their primary PPO membership card and when their members receive care outside of their primary network, they are directed to physicians or healthcare facilities by calling the A&G Healthcare Services 800 number or by browsing the companys web site. Claims falling outside of the Amera-Net network coverage are handled by the Amera-Net claims negotiation team for prompt pay discounts. All fees for repricing services are billed on a contingency basis.

America has become a nation of travelers, and Amera-Nets services provide protection against the high costs of out of area network claims that have risen to an all time high," said Norman Payson, Chairman, Founder and CEO of A&G Healthcare Services. Amera-Net provides the most extensive secondary PPO wrap network coverage in the US, and we also maximize medical cost savings and deliver timely results through a single-source solution. We have developed several claims repricing options to cater to various system capabilities such as mail, fax, batch processing, imaging, EDI and instant Internet. These multiple options allow almost any payor to effectively and efficiently take advantage of the protection and cost savings that Amera-Net offers," Mr. Payson continued.

Amera-Net is a product of A&G Healthcare Services the nations leading provider of cost containment strategies. The company recently made significant investments in its information technology (IT) infrastructure, allowing state-of-the-art processing for electronic claims (EDI) and automated repricing. The PPO repricing services are marketed under the service mark of
i-Trex (Integrated Transaction Repricing Exchange). Repricing and electronic processing of primary and secondary PPO claims provide clients with many workflow efficiencies and significant dollar savings. A&G provides its clients with a complete suite of services that include membership ID card fulfillment to insure proper steerage with logos placed on each individual membership card.

Cost saving solutions like Amera-Net make my life easier, because they are no-brainers" for my payor clients. It just makes sense to protect yourself from unnecessary financial exposure when payors client employees travel outside of their primary network, especially when the solution is so reasonably priced," said Kent McRee, Senior Vice President of Business Development at A&G Healthcare Services.

About A&G Healthcare Services
A&G Healthcare Services, headquartered in Plano, TX, is a medical cost containment company serving more than 600 payor organizations by providing repricing and fee negotiation services for claims that have been determined to be out-of-area or network. A&G also owns and operates a national travel wrap PPO network named Amera-Net which provides superior coverage for payor clientele members. A&G has served the healthcare payor market for over eight years. For more information, please call Suzie Acosta at (972) 312-8589 Ext. 172, Suziea@aghealth123.com or visit http://www.aghealth123.com.

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