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Are U a Small Business Owner& Provide Healthcare Ins.to Employees

Small Business owners can Control their Healthcare Costs.Pl. Read How?Follow WalMart or DirectPath Rewards to MPC ,a foundary in MilwaukeeWi

Healthcare Costs are Rising Faster than the Inflation Rate as Monopolies grow in Kane County,Il.

In Feb.6,2015,NY Times article,"When Hospitals Buy Doctors,Patients Co-Pays Go up". They cited how a medicare patient went to a Cardiologist for Sonogram and was charged 189$ with a copay of 38$,but after a few years,he needed another Sonogram and so he went to the same Cardiologist in the same office,but received a bill of 453$ with Co-Pay of 90$---20% of 453 $. Now He got the bill from the hospital. He did not realize that he was No longer going to an Independent Doctor as his doctor sold out his practice to the hospital.

So there are many ways,Medical Procedures costs have gone up.

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WalMart faced similar problem with more expensive OUTPATIENT SURGERIES like Spinal Surgeries.So 15 years ago,they started to help their employees as well help themselves. They found the local facilities were not being Honest in their Diagnosis and were OVER doing-Surgeries in 33% of cases. In addition,they were charging more realizing that these Employees are ignorant about their OPTIONS.

So WalMart Health Benefits dept.stepped and did due diligence and found that the local outpatient facilities thought they had monopoly and poor Employee has NO WHERE ELSE to Go TO.

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WalMart identified 11 facilities and told their employees that WalMart will pay for their Travel Expenses if they went to any of these 11 facilities around the USA..

Similarly MPC-A foundary in Milwaukee,Wisconsin worked with DirectPath Rewards which created an Offer for Employees to look at 3 facilities for mammogram and Ultra Sound for women with incentive that they will Receive a Check for 20% of total Savings which amounted to 80$ check for Mammogram. Emma Court wrote this article last week in Marketwatch.

So If U as Small Business Owner want to Lower the Healthcare Costs,you can become a client of DirectPath and in the case of Colonoscopy or Endoscopy, Call 630232 2025--American Colonoscopy & Endoscopy Center next to Geneva Commons will Save U more than 2000$ for Preventive Screening Colonoscopy .They have Certified anesthesiologist during the procedure and their Gastroenterologist was trained from 1999-2002 at the Famous The Cleveland Clinic Rated # 2 in Gastroenterology by US News & World Report.

If U want to read the full article by Emma Court, Enter "DirectPath Rewards,Unususal----" and U will see the article.

Kim Buckey ,Vice President of DirectPath said," There is NO Price List in Sky" which makes it difficult for employees to call and get the information correctly by each provider.

This frustrates the employees and without YOUR (Business Owner's) help,they end up going to MOST EXPENSIVE Provider. No wonder U see big bills for Health care costs.

So Call 6302322025 OR DirectPath Health

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