Culver City, CA,, Jan. 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- eWellness Healthcare Corporation – (OTCQB: EWLL) – a provider of the state-of-the-art PHZIO Platform for the physical therapy and telehealth markets, announced today plans to inaugurate multi-state telehealth services by late March 2018 to Endeavor Plus Services, Inc. (“EPS”), a healthcare Third Party Administrator. We project that EPS could reach approximately 100,000 members throughout the next 18 months.
If EPS can reach these projected growth rates over the 18 months, it could generate and expand the offering of its services to PEO’s, MEWA’s, unions and the financial services industry reps, and easily reach at least 500,000 new members on a national level.
The small group employer marketplace is estimated to have annual premiums of $377 million. Approximately 84% of the employers in this market uses traditional fully insured health plans sponsored by the Blue Cross, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Cigna and Anthem. With level funded health plans, which are accompanied by A-rated insurance carriers, EPS is growing rapidly by offering more employee benefits with lower premium costs.
According to eWellness, this new agreement is anticipated to generate initially up to $4.2 million in annual re-occurring gross revenue for the Company. This level of sales is anticipated to allow the Company to gain cash flow positive operations during the middle of 2018. Additionally, and if EPS were able to continue their projected growth rate over the next 12-18 months, that could generate at least 500,000 new members, which in turn could generate at least $100 million in re-occurring gross annual revenue to eWellness.
EPS is a third-party administrator (TPA), which is an organization that processes insurance claims or certain aspects of employee benefit plans for small and medium sized companies.
EPS is projecting to grow rapidly in the small group health insurance market which has annual premiums of over $384 billion per year. Approximately 84% of this market is traditional full insurance. The company is expected to grow rapidly by offering these small employers the ability to self insure through excellent plan design and reinsurance. EWLL is excited to be chosen as their physical therapy gatekeeper as well as wellness program supplier.
EWLL’s comprehensive PT & wellness programs and consulting services are anticipated to provide EPS with new products that will: (1) build new sales channels that increase their current health insurance business, and (2) create new revenue sources through the introduction of such products.
Concierge PT Medical Services: EWLL will be provisioning to EPS members a new and highly unique patient treatment protocol, that includes “white glove” concierge in-home or in-office physical therapy assessments and digital care treatments in order to enhance the medical treatment and help improve patient treatment outcomes. EWLL will become the exclusive provider of “white glove” concierge in-home or in-office physical therapy assessments, digital physical therapy and a wellness program to the individual members covered by EPS. EWLL has been selected to be the gatekeeper for all EPS physical therapy treatments. As the PT treatment gatekeeper, EWLL will conduct an online consultation with each patient to assess the complexity involved with the patient presentation. From the online consultation, an in-home or in-office evaluation of the patient may be prescribed. Through this initial evaluation, a plan of care will be designed for each patient that in most cases is anticipated to include digital therapy sessions.
PreHabPT: All individuals covered by EPS, that are seeking (non-emergency) orthopedic surgery shall first receive a concierge online consultation, in-home or in-office physical therapy evaluation and will be prescribed a 4-8-week prehabpt.com exercise program prior to any surgery. Another in-home or in-office physical therapy evaluation will be made following surgery and a treatment plan will be initiated. PreHabPT is up to an 8-week physician to patient pre-surgical (Prehab) digital therapeutic exercise treatment system for patients that anticipate having total join replacement (knee, hip and or shoulder) or back surgeries. Patients may complete these digital therapeutic exercises either monitored or unmonitored.
PurePT: PurePT is a patient & independent PT digital treatment platform for connecting new patients to PT’s that are seeking to be treated with our PHZIO treatment system. Patient program assessments can be made in the privacy of a patient home or office. PurePT connects new patients to PT’s, particularly in states that have direct access rules where patient’s insurance will reimburse for treatment without requiring a physician’s prescription. PurePT puts the patient first!
PHZIO Comprehensive Wellness Program: Any EPS members may after an in-home or in-office physical therapy assessment, enroll in a 6-month comprehensive wellness program. The top line wellness goals of our PHZIO wellness exercise program is to graduate at least 60% of inducted patients through our 6-month program. Patients should expect to experience an average of a 20% reduction in BMI, a 2-inch reduction in waist size, weight loss of at least 10 pounds, significant overall improvement in balance, coordination, flexibility, strength, and lumbopelvic stability. Patients also should score better on Functional Outcomes Scales (Oswestry and LEFS), which indicates improved functional activity levels due to reduced low back, knee and hip pain.
About Endeavor Plus, Inc. (EPI)
Endeavor Plus, Inc. (EPI), the parent company of Endeavor Plus Services, Inc., has taken the lead in a movement to guide and assist small group employers and their employees in dropping their fully insured health plans and switching to using partially self-funded ERISA qualified health insurance plans. Their mission is to bring about innovative changes to the traditional health insurance models which will drive down healthcare costs, and still offer significantly better benefits to both small and mid-size group employers and their employees.
Moreover, these employers and their employees participate in the Endeavor Plus Plan, a Consumer-Directed Health Care and technology-driven program that is affordable, manageable and responsive to the demand for higher quality care. This is accomplished with cost transparency, integrated health information, better provider access and communication and eventual better outcomes. Endeavor accomplishes this by integrating Accountable Care Organization (ACO) features while maintaining full ACA compliance.
The Endeavor Plus model is supported by five key pillars:
➢ PLAN DESIGN: Our single comprehensive plan design eliminates guesswork, simplifies enrollment, and provides straightforward data.
➢ PROVIDER ACCESS: Our open access network allows plan members the freedom to use the doctor or hospital of their choice.
➢ EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: Our market-leading employee engagement creates healthier outcomes and bottom lines.
➢ TOP-RATED INSURANCE COVERAGE: Allows clients to rest assure they are covered in the event of higher than expected claims costs.
➢ RISK LEVELING REINSURANCE COVERAGE: Our revolutionary, patent-pending program allows for a first-of-its-kind premium stability.
With EPI, small and mid-size group employers can offer:
➢ A partially self-funded plan that focuses on employee wellness, education, and engagement that puts employers in an advantageous position to attract and retain valuable employees who enjoy the benefit of having savings, control, transparency and the freedom and flexibility to manage their healthcare plan.
➢ A proprietary major medical plan that includes telemedicine, dental and vision coverage that is coupled with an Health Savings Account (HSA) that is protected by A-1 AM Best-Rated insurance carriers. The HSA offering is paired with a qualified ‘smart’ Deductible Health Plan that keeps premiums low, and maximum out-of-pocket expenses up to 50 percent lower than traditional plans.
Our health plan provides first dollar employee coverage which, in turn, lowers the deductible to the employees, requires no co-insurance and has a balance bill protection program for its members. Additionally, the EPS health plan incorporates state-of-the-art mental health programs along with its vendor US HealthCenter, Inc. (USHC) which provides a full range of population health management.
About eWellness
eWellness Healthcare Corporation (OTCQB: EWLL) is the first physical therapy telehealth company to offer insurance reimbursable real-time distance monitored treatments. Our business model is to license our PHZIO (“PHZIO”) platform to any physical therapy (“PT”) clinic in the U.S. and or have large-scale employers use our PHZIO platform as a fully PT monitored corporate wellness program. The Company’s PHZIO home physical therapy exercise platform has been designed to disrupt the $30 billion physical therapy and the $8 billion corporate wellness industries. PHZIO re-defines the way physical therapy can be delivered. PHZIO is the first real-time remote monitored 1-to-many physical therapy platform for home use. Due to the real-time patient monitoring feature, the PHZIO platform is insurance reimbursable.
The PHZIO Solution: A New Physical Therapy Delivery System
| ● | SaaS technology platform solution for providers bundling rehabilitation services and employer wellness programs; | |
| ● | First real-time remote monitored 1-to-many physical therapy treatment platform for home use; | |
| ● | Ability for physical therapists to observe multiple patients simultaneously in real-time; | |
| ● | Solves what has been a structural problem and limitation in post-acute care practice growth; and | |
| ● | Allows PT practices to generate increased revenues due to higher adherence and compliance rates. |
For more information on eWellness go to:
http://www.ewellnesshealth.com/
http://phzio.com/
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