The Impact of Healthcare Reform

What will the new healthcare reform mean to your company? It means that you have to provide health insurance for all your employees, and that you have to pay a substantial portion of the premium; it means you are going to be spending more rather than less on benefits.

The effect of this is that many companies are planning to move to consumer-driven or high deductible health insurance plans to lower their overall premiums. But many have said that they will then additionally provide WhiteGlove to their employees and dependents for routine medical care.

How Will This Work?
WhiteGlove House Call Health is a membership-based routine healthcare provider. A company pays an annual fee per employee and dependents, and then that employee can use WhiteGlove as often as desired for any routine healthcare problems at a capped fee of $35 per visit. The visit fee includes medical care that comes to the employee’s home or office, generic prescription medications, a care package of foods, beverages, and over-the-counter remedies, and follow up care.

This approach lowers overall spending, caps costs for routine care, improves employee productivity, reduces absenteeism and helps with the potential morale problems caused by having to change your health plan.

WhiteGlove can help you understand how to lower your healthcare costs while improving employee morale! Visit our website to learn more.

House Calls Are For Everyone

WhiteGlove House Call Health has brought back the good old fashioned house call and re-invented every aspect of it. Not only will they come to you at home or work 365 days a year from 8am to 8pm but they include medical care, generic Rx medications, even foods, beverages and over-the-counter remedies. WhiteGlove is like a doctor, pharmacy, and grocery store on wheels.

One of the things that makes the WhiteGlove service truly unique is that it is available to members in all of their service areas. WhiteGlove service areas include: Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. So, if you live in Dallas and travel to Houston and end up needing routine care, you can call WhiteGlove and in just a few hours receive the exact same care experience that you would if you were at home.

WhiteGlove’s healthcare professionals will come to you at a time scheduled by you, to a location specified by you. A healthcare professional will diagnose and treat you, provide you with generic prescription medications if needed, and even leave you with foods, beverages, and over-the-counter remedies! The cost for the visit? An all-inclusive $35 or your applicable co-pay, co-insurance, or deductible if Aetna, Humana, or UnitedHealthcare insured.

There are multiple ways to become a WhiteGlove member:

· Any individual or family can pay a monthly fee for membership
· Anyone with Aetna or Humana health insurance in all service areas or UnitedHealthcare in Austin and San Antonio has their membership covered and just pays their applicable co-pay, co-insurance, or deductible depending on their plan
· Anyone who works for a company that sponsors the WhiteGlove membership

Once a member, you have unlimited access to the WhiteGlove service during your membership term for just your applicable visit fee.

For more information, visit the WhiteGlove website.

The problem with today's healthcare

Today’s healthcare is based on a fee-for-service model. Since insurance companies continually reduce the amount they pay for each service, it forces medical care providers to order extra tests and procedures as well as conduct unnecessary visits in order to make a living. This model needs to change in order to reduce the cost of healthcare. WhiteGlove House Call Heath has addressed this issue for routine medical care by creating a “fee-for-duration-of-time” model, also known as a membership. This model charges just one fee for a membership plus a small visit fee each time the service is used. This model caps the cost of routine care for WhiteGlove members. The annual membership fee is about the cost of one visit to an urgent care clinic. And, WhiteGlove comes to its members at work or at home, 365 days a year, from 8am to 8pm. The small visit fee of around $35 includes medical care, generic Rx medications, foods, beverages, and over-the-counter remedies. With thousands of members in Texas this model is being met with a lot of interest and is being supported by three of the largest health insurance companies in the country. Visit www.whiteglove.com to learn more about WhiteGlove.