American Caresource Holdings, Inc. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

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About American Caresource Holdings, Inc.

American CareSource Holdings, Inc., an ancillary benefits management company, offers access to a national network of ancillary healthcare service providers.

Services and Capabilities

Ancillary care services

Ancillary healthcare services include an array of services that supplement or support the care provided by hospitals and physicians, including the non-hospital, non-physician services associated with surgery centers, free-standing diagnostic imaging centers, home health and infusion, supply of durable medical equipment, orthotics and prosthetics, laboratory and other services.

Ancillary healthcare services include the following categories: Acupuncture; Long-term Acute Care; cardiac monitoring; massage therapy; chiropractor; occupational therapy; diagnostic imaging; pain management; dialysis; physical therapy; durable medical equipment; podiatry; genetic testing; rehab: outpatient; hearing aids; rehab: inpatient; home health; sleep; hospice; skilled nursing facility; implantable devices; surgery center; infusion; transportation; laboratory; urgent care; lithotripsy; and vision.

The company’s clients are national, regional, and local health plans, which include preferred provider organizations (PPOs), third party administrators (TPAs), insurance companies, large self-funded organizations, and Taft-Hartley union plans (employee benefit plans that are self-administered under collective bargaining agreements), that engage the company to provide them with an outsourced solution designed to manage each payor’s obligations to its covered persons. It has agreements with approximately 4,300 ancillary healthcare service providers operating in approximately 33,000 sites nationwide.

The company’s services include analyzing the needs of payors and creating a custom network for them, credentialing providers, processing provider claims submitted to the payors and forwarded by the payors to the company, submitting the processed claims to its client payors for payment and performing client service functions for payors and contracted providers, including monthly reporting services. Contracting with the company provides payors the capability of marketing ancillary healthcare services to their participants.

Provider Network

The company has contractual agreements with its network of ancillary healthcare service providers for the purpose of meeting its contractual obligations to its healthcare payors to make available a customer-specific ancillary healthcare provider network. The network comprises approximately 4,300 ancillary healthcare service providers that are located in 33,000 sites nationwide. When providers initially enter the ACS provider network, the company credentials them for inclusion in the payor-specific provider network. The company also re-credentials its providers on a periodic basis.

Customers

The company’s healthcare payor clients engage it manage an array of ancillary healthcare services that they and their payors have agreed to make available to their insureds or beneficiaries or for which they have agreed to provide insurance coverage. The typical services the healthcare payor customers require the company to provide include providing a network of ancillary healthcare services providers that is available to the payor’s covered persons for covered services; providing claims management, reporting, and processing and payment services; performing network/needs analysis to assess the benefits to payor customers of adding additional/different service providers to the payor-specific provider networks; and credentialing network service providers for inclusion in the payor -specific provider networks.

The company’s significant payors include HealthSmart Preferred Care, Inc. (HealthSmart), which consists of HealthSmart and its affiliates, American Administrative Group (AAG), Interplan Health Group (IHG), Emerald Healthcare, and HealthSmart Accel Network (Accel); and Viant Holdings Inc. (Viant), consisting of Texas True Choice, Inc. and Beech Street Corporation.

Competition

The company’s competitors consist of national health plans and insurers, such as Aetna, Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans, Cigna, Humana, and United HealthCare.

History

American CareSource Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1995.