MagnaCare Introduces Provider Search Function on Mobile Website, Meets Demand for On-the-Go Access to Healthcare

As part of its commitment to utilizing the latest technology to improve member access to care, MagnaCare, a healthcare services company, introduces a provider search feature on its mobile website, allowing users to search providers, facilities, laboratories and radiology centers by network plan and specialty via zip code or current location with a GPS locator.

“The provider search function is designed so that any plan participant can use smart phone technology in order to quickly and conveniently access care when and where it is needed,” says Joseph Berardo Jr., CEO and president of MagnaCare. “MagnaCare is committed to keeping pace with emerging mobile technologies, and leveraging smart phone connectivity to simplify access to healthcare services.”

Studies show that:

• more than 50 percent of physicians use a smartphone for work purposes
• by the end of 2012, there will be 115.8 million smartphone users in the US, with that number expected to reach 176.3 million by 2015

Berardo adds, “MagnaCare understands the importance of empowering members through mobile technology and social media to enhance individual compliance with medications and treatments, promote positive behavioral change and reverse healthcare cost trends.”

Additionally, MagnaCare has begun utilizing Quick Response (QR) code and texting codes to enable brokers to download a Brokers Toolkit that provides valuable information on self-insurance.

In addition, MagnaCare is hosting a “Who’s Your Healthy Idol?” contest as part of an ongoing Facebook campaign. Contest participants can submit their entry highlighting an individual who exemplifies healthy living for the chance to win a full-year gym membership.

About MagnaCare

MagnaCare, a healthcare services company, is proactively reducing the cost of healthcare by offering self-insured options to employers with as few as 15 employees in New Jersey and 50 in New York. For more than 20 years MagnaCare has provided services to self-insured employers and health, workers’ compensation and no fault payers, including commercial insurers, TPA’s, government entities, and labor markets. MagnaCare offers access to a broad provider network, predictive modeling analyses, member outreach programs and integrated solutions that include full plan management services. MagnaCare was selected to the esteemed “Modern Healthcare’s 2010 and 2011 Best Places to Work in Healthcare.” Visit www.magnacare.com, linkedin.com/company/magnacare, www.twitter.com/magnacare, http://blog.magnacare.com.