Purchasing Programs – FrontPath Health Coalition

Purchasing Programs

Market driven healthcare begins at home.

Healthcare is a local enterprise where services are provided, utilized and paid for at the community level. At FrontPath, we understand that to improve quality and cost effectiveness, employers and health benefit plan sponsors must establish stronger relationships with healthcare providers in their community. And to improve quality and cost-effectiveness, purchasers must demand provider accountability – the delivery of value-based, outcomes-oriented care.

As a business coalition on health FrontPath supports initiatives that convert “value-based purchasing” from theory to practice. Better, safer, more appropriate healthcare costs less than care delivered inefficiently, in unsafe environments, and at the wrong time.

FrontPath is actively engaged in accelerating the pace of healthcare improvement.

When it comes to value, access and reduced costs, FrontPath Health Coalition is leading the way to better healthcare. We are focused on value-based healthcare purchasing, working with hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers to obtain the highest quality care at the most reasonable costs for our members.

FrontPath supports the four pillars of Value-Based Purchasing

Standardized Performance Measurement

Measuring the comparative quality and efficiency of hospitals, physicians and health plans to identify the best value.

Transparency and Public Reporting

To improve the overall health and productivity of the community as well as the hospital delivery system.

Payment Reform

Creating incentives to achieve higher value care through integrated delivery systems and continuous quality improvement initiatives.

Informed Consumer Choice

Purchasing the best value or highest quality healthcare at the most reasonable cost.

PPO Network

For over
three
decades

FrontPath has provided the broadest unconditional access in our region to local healthcare providers and services. Over the years we have maintained a partnership rather than adversarial approach with our providers. As a result, providers that sign with us stay with us.

80+

Regional Hospitals

5+

Quaternary Hospitals

8,000+

Primary Care & Specialist Physicians

700+

Ancillary Service Providers

Here are just a few ways FrontPath’s purchasing programs work for you. The ultimate benefit to you is lower, more stable and predictable long-term costs.

Access

The broadest unconditional access to local healthcare providers and services.

Control

Maintain total control of your benefit plan.

Flexibility

Ultimate flexibility in designing and administering your benefit plan.

Costs

You and your participants enjoy the benefits of reduced healthcare costs.

Quality

FrontPath has a strong history of working with providers to help enhance patient quality and safety.

PPO Benefits

At FrontPath Health Coalition, your healthcare plan can work in conjunction with our Preferred Provider network as the starting point to provide you with superior access and choice, the best pricing possible, and flexibility and control in your healthcare plan design.

Here’s how we do it:

We are able to make self-insurance even more affordable through risk-sharing contracts with healthcare providers and the purchasing power of more than 125,000 members.
As a not-for-profit, we pass through 100 percent of all provider discounts to our members.
We have zero-percent profit in all Coalition pricing.
We have extremely competitive network discounts.

In addition to open access we offer flexibility and freedom of choice in the design of your healthcare benefit plan. You control the design of the healthcare plan that is appropriate for your business and economic needs.

Self Funded Insurance

A risk management method

Self funded insurance offers plan sponsors a cost effective method for funding benefit plans. It allows you greater control of your plan design, and offers you more flexibility and savings in plan administration.

The idea of self insurance is that retaining and calculating risks and paying the resulting claims or losses is less expensive than purchasing a fully insured plan from a commercial insurance company.
Self insured plan administration is typically less expensive when compared to purchased insurance.

All savings associated with the plan administration remain with the self insured plan, as opposed to savings retained by an insurer in a fully insured plan.