What Care Connect Is
The Right Care at a More Affordable Price
Care Connect powered by the Tendo Marketplace revolutionizes direct contracting for employee healthcare by connecting employers with a network of local and national providers who offer bundled procedures at upfront prices with no surprise bills and exclusive savings.
Care Connect provides savings on many medical procedures because it brings together employers, medical providers, and employees in a direct win-win approach that saves all of them money while delivering high quality care.
How It Works
Care Connect sets up an online portal for your company where your care navigators can shop for medical procedures that have been prescribed for your company’s employees. The portal is configured so that financing options and provider groups that align with your company’s needs appear on the portal.
The user friendly shopping experience on Care Connect is similar to e-commerce sites that consumers are used to, freeing up your care navigators to concentrate on finding the best providers for employees.
The navigators can compare providers, locations, and prices to get the best quality care for the best price. Prices for procedures are all-inclusive bundled prices, so there are no surprise bills for ancillary services such as anesthesia and labs.
The result is that your employees get procedures that can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars less than standard prices for quality healthcare, and you as a company know in advance what the costs of procedures are. There are no “pay per employee per month” fees, so your money goes to focused care that provides the procedures your employees need.
The all-inclusive bundles display transparent pricing, estimated cost savings, and quality metrics all together.
Your care navigators can shop on Care Connect from hundreds of procedures and thousands of providers at ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), and clinics across major specialties. Care Connect works with top healthcare organizations across the United States, so your employees can get access to care at their favorite hospital, clinic, ambulatory surgery center, or imaging center.
Care Connect seamlessly integrates with your healthcare plan to help you manage costs more effectively. Care Connect’s API also allows integration with existing benefit platforms and TPA systems for those who want to seamlessly incorporate our marketplace into their user interfaces.
Care Connect includes common procedures across a wide range of specialties, including:
- Orthopedics
- Imaging and Radiology
- Gastroenterology
- Podiatry
- Therapy (Physical, Occupational, Speech)
- Nuclear Medicine
- Sleep Medicine
- Cardiac Imaging
- Interventional Radiology
- Spinal Surgery
- Pain Management
- General Surgery
- Lab Work and Drug Testing
Care navigators can easily purchase procedures using financing options that you designate:
- Various billing options
- Split payments between you and your employees
- Shared shopping carts that help your employees understand their financial obligation and yours
Care Connect works because it’s a win for everyone.
By listing services on Care Connect, healthcare providers employ a direct contracting strategy that provides more affordable care for employer populations in an efficient, transparent process.
They get paid for their services, and Care Connect handles the details, reducing the administrative burden that adds to the cost of healthcare.
Employers benefit from Care Connect because it makes procedures more affordable. This approach is particularly effective for self-funded employers, care navigators, third party administrators (TPAs), alternative health plans, and others with innovative benefit designs.
Employees also gain from Care Connect, as they receive high-quality healthcare at reduced prices.
Estimated Costs and Savings
The Tendo Marketplace estimates prices using an algorithm that integrates data from various sources, including insurance claims across the United States, academic studies on paid claim amounts, and governmental payer prices. Our pricing algorithm combines payments from all participants and fees in each bundle to enable accurate comparison between Care Connect’s all-inclusive prices and typical fee-for-service insurance payments.
You may notice that there can be a difference in estimated prices on Care Connect and mdsave.com. This is because the estimated prices on Care Connect are intended to show typical payments by commercial insurance providers for a procedure. The estimates on mdsave.com incorporate self- and cash-pay prices in addition to contracted commercial rates to reflect typical payments by cash pay consumers purchasing a procedure.
If you have questions or feedback about any specific prices that are displayed, please let us know.
