Media Release March 3, 2011
Quality Health Management and Mobile Surgery International
Reach Agreement for Bundled Surgical Services
Domestic services available now; mobile services abroad to be explored
MINNEAPOLIS, MN and AVENTURA, FLORIDA, March 3, 2011 – Quality Health Management (QHM) and Mobile Surgery International (MSI) have reached a new agreement through which MSI will deliver transparently priced, bundled laparoscopic and joint replacement surgery service packages to QHM members. Initially, these packages will be available in South Florida.
“QHM is pleased to be able to offer access to specific, high-quality, bundled, cancer and orthopedic surgical services to its clients and their members through MSI. All services will initially be carried out by MSI at facilities in southern Florida,” said Patricia Ziomek, Principal at QHM. “MSI has demonstrated an ability to deliver these high-quality, bundled surgical services while helping its domestic and international clients to overcome economic, geographic, and cultural barriers. For our Latin clients, MSI’s abilities in Spanish are important, just as are its concierge services. We are equally interested in MSI’s proven mobile surgical model, because many of our clients, including foreign governments, cannot always send patients to the United States for major surgery. MSI’s ability to distribute quality surgery abroad represents a new and important administrative tool for us.”
MSI proved the viability of its surgeon-driven mobile surgical model in 2009, when it first sent an American prostate cancer patient and his American surgical team to Trinidad to carry out his operation. In so doing, MSI cut the overall cost for a laparoscopic radical prostatectomy by 60%, which opened the door to the preferred treatment for the patient in question.
“Patients face economic, cultural, and geographical barriers to choice and quality,” said MSI’s CEO — Arnon Krongrad, MD. “Working through administrators and brokers such as QHM allows efficient distribution of bundled surgical service packages. Our agreement with QHM simplifies logistics for patients who are in or who are willing to come to the United States. It also allows us to begin to develop bundled surgical services in the Caribbean and Latin America.”
Over the past 2 years, MSI has developed and built bundled surgical services with a focus on quality for domestic and foreign clients. Total knee replacement service, for example, includes highly experienced specialists, US FDA-approved implants, and aggressive one-on-one physical therapy.
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Quality Health Management: For over ten years Quality Health Management (QHM) has been guiding the global needs of payers, patients and providers with PPO, administrative and specialty services. QHM has grown into a leading cost containment and administrative services company serving the needs of international payers and patients who seek services in the United States and abroad. QHM is dedicated to building long-term relationships with its customers and providers. QHM offers international medical benefit solutions for payers and their patients. QHM breaks down the barriers in administering global health benefits. We believe the best approach is to listen to the needs of each QHM customer, then deliver solutions that specifically address their requirements. That means direct conversations, being there when we are needed and follow-up that goes beyond the expected. For more information, see http://www.qhmanagement.com
Mobile Surgery International: MSI offers patients and payers surgical choice and quality with cost containment through its Centers of Excellence with Global Convenience™ in Kansas, Florida, Mexico, Panama, and Trinidad. MSI cuts overhead, recruits outstanding surgical talent, and identifies host surgical facilities, providing differentiating surgical programs and custom solutions with minimal regard to geography. Whether the patient comes to the surgeon, the surgeon goes to the patient, or patient and surgeon meet at a mutually convenient location, MSI coordinates all arrangements at a cost agreeable to the patient and/or the payer. For more information see www.emeseye.com
