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Healthbase Collaborates with WellPoint to Bring Affordable Medical Tourism Solutions

Monday, January 5, 2009 General News
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BOSTON, Jan. 5 Healthbase Online Inc., a Boston-basedaward-winning medical tourism facilitator, has collaborated on a pilot basiswith WellPoint, Inc., an Indianapolis-based health benefits company to provideglobal health care coverage to members of WellPoint's affiliated health planin Wisconsin. Healthbase will handle all the medical travel logistics andarrangements for WellPoint members.
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According to Saroja Mohanasundaram, CEO of Healthbase(http://www.healthbase.com), "Healthbase is committed to providing highquality medical travel services at affordable cost. Healthbase will assistWellPoint members with coordination of the trip, medical appointmentscheduling, digital medical records transfer, and concierge travel service."
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Under this program, effective from January 2009, members who travel forcertain non-emergency elective procedures like joint replacement and spinalfusion, will have access to Joint Commission International accreditedhealthcare providers in India. This will result to lower out-of-pocket costsfor members translating into thousands of dollars in total savings. A hipreplacement surgery, for example, costing over $60,000 in the US, costs lessthan $8,000 at an accredited hospital in India.

"We are pleased to work collectively with Healthbase to deliver aninternational medical tourism pilot product to our clients who are interestedin exploring a medical tourism solution," said Dr. Razia Hashmi, vicepresident and medical director for WellPoint's national accounts division."Medical tourism is a promising option for improving access to affordable,quality health care. Working with Healthbase, our case managers willcoordinate all steps of the medical tourism process for members interested inreceiving care overseas."

About Healthbase:

Healthbase is a one-stop source for global medical and dental choices,connecting patients to internationally accredited providers in 14 countriesincluding India, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, Panama, Costa Ricaand Mexico. Healthbase caters to individual consumers, self-funded businesses,insurers, benefit consultants, third party administrators and those usingConsumer Directed Healthcare Plans (CDHPs) or voluntary benefit plans. Moreinformation at http://www.healthbase.com.

About WellPoint, Inc.:

WellPoint, Inc. is the largest health benefits company in terms of medicalmembership in the United States. WellPoint is an independent licensee of theBlue Cross and Blue Shield Association and serves its members as the BlueCross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee forColorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (as theBlue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 10 New York City metropolitan andsurrounding counties and as the Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licenseein selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the northernVirginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), Wisconsin; and through UniCare.Additional information about WellPoint is available athttp://www.wellpoint.com.

SOURCE Healthbase Online Inc.
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