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A&G Healthcare Services Consultants, now A&G Healthcare
Services, has evolved from a niche cost
containment vendor to a full service benefit cost
management company, with emphasis on access management
and providing services as an access intermediary.
In its early days, A&G served as an outlet for multiple location employers who did not have access to traditional managed care outlets. In the process of developing this service, A&G created relationships with local, regional and national networks from around the country. Having built such an infrastructure, A&G needed to diversify its product base to "feed" the network arrangements that had been completed.
A&G clients had a common complaint, and that was the lack
of a methodology to achieve "managed care" or PPO discounts when employees (insureds) were confined or sought
services outside the geographic parameters of the "primary" healthcare network. Having experience in small volume multi-locationed
services, A&G felt that filling this need was a natural
extension of its services and developed its "out of area"
product complete with patient identification and provider
notification.
Today, many years after entering into the managed care environment(since 1994) with only the thought to serve and save, A&G has grown from three employees into a nationally recognized cost
containment leader with 65+ employees headquartered in Plano, Texas. A&G's services have evolved from the hit and miss world of multiple locationed claims to being a cost containment leader in out-of-area & network claims, negotiated discounts and bill review and audit services. All of these services are managed by a state-of-the-art processing system that is Internet enabled, fully HIPAA compliant and EDI ready.
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