Meritain Health, HealthGlobe, and Korean Health Industry Development Institute work together to achieve customized, international care for plan members

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Meritain Health, HealthGlobe, and Korean Health Industry Development Institute work together to achieve customized, international care for plan members

Meritain Health’s partnership with the medical tourism program, HealthGlobe, provides employees of Korean businesses with reasonably priced, comprehensive healthcare coverage.

Buffalo, NY July 1, 2010 – Korean Companies with employees in the United States will now have access to a high quality, reasonably priced health plan option, spanning both the United States and Korea. Meritain Health announced today that it starts to offer claims administration, as well as comprehensive provider access, that includes medical tourism with the support of the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI). Through Meritain Health’s strong relationships with nationwide PPO networks, state-side members will receive healthcare services from U.S. providers; for members in need of more extensive medical care, Meritain Health’s new partnership with HealthGlobe provides them with healthcare services in Korea.

As healthcare and health benefit costs continue to climb, Meritain Health clients require innovative cost control strategies. Meritain Health achieves this through comprehensive provider network strategies.

“HealthGlobe helps us deliver near and long-term cost savings for our clients,” said Dave Parker, Senior Vice President of Sales for Meritain Health. “This program finds the highest quality of medical care where the cost of doing business is not so high, thereby lowering costs for employers and members.”

About Meritain Health
Meritain Health is the nation’s largest independent provider of services for self-funded health plans. Meritain Health serves over 1,700 self-funded clients and over 1.4 million members nationally. The company provides plan administration, innovative wellness, medical management, disease management, network management and cost management services. Meritain Health is also a pioneer and now the leading independent provider of Consumer-Directed Health Plans. Meritain Health employs more than 1,400 people, with headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y., and regional offices in 30 cities across the country. For more information, visit http://www.meritain.com.

Stop Loss Brokerage

Stop-Loss Brokerage, Inc. is a full service brokerage agency specializing in ERISA-based Self-Funded plan designs for over 25 years. With access to, and direct underwriting experience with, a large diverse range of TPAs, Reinsurance Carriers, MCOs, MGUs and PBMs, ,Stop-Loss Brokerage has excelled at keeping its clientele in a cutting edge platform, assuring optimum plan performance and high level claims management. Stop-Loss Brokerage is very pleased to be partnering with HealthGlobe and Meritain Health in the development and promotion of the Korean Association Preferred Health Plan.

For more information on the Korean Association product,

please contact Keith Johnson, President, Stop-Loss

Brokerage, Inc. at 1.502.245.1508.

About KHIDI
The Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) is a government-funded institution established for the purpose of contributing to the improvement of the people’s health and the nation’s economic development. KHIDI promotes the health, medical, and bio industries as the core industries of the 21st century’s knowledge based economy and the nation’s core strategic industries. To learn more about KHIDI, please visit www.khidi.or.kr.

About HealthGlobe
HealthGlobe is a full-service medical travel or medical tourism facilitator. The organization connects clients with established, reputable medical facilities in countries outside the U.S., providing access to high quality care at more affordable costs. HealthGlobe establishes relationships with only the highest-quality physicians, specialists and facilities around the world, and then works with individuals, the companies they work for, or their insurers to facilitate the entire medical travel and medical tourism process from referral through post-operative care.