4Healing has one commitment: Successful Health Outcomes for the Patient.  We focus on the science of healthcare instead of  the business of healthcare.  We are not aligned with any group, specialty, modality or special interest. We collect and report outcomes data on healthcare practitioners.   When the patient gets better, everyone wins: the patient, the doctor, the payer.  Data collected from our members and from our  previous company 1-800-DOCTORS have consistently shown that patients using our common-sense system get better results, faster results, and usually at much lower cost. 4Healing assembles the largest network of practitioners in each area from multiple specialties and modalities.  All have agreed to subject their practices to the rigorous scrutiny of Outcomes-Based Medicine.  What about your doctor?

Why the 4Healing Benefit Works –
Examining the current healthcare system 4Healing improves:

The financial incentives prevalent in the current healthcare system reward more costly procedures, and refuse to pay for more effective, less expensive scientifically validated therapies.  4Healing realigns the incentives to reward successful outcomes.  See short video;  See Science of Successful Outcomes.

Payers have to pay regardless of outcome –  Doctors and healthcare institutions are paid to perform procedures, not cure illness¹.  There is no reward for success, nor any penalty for failure to achieve a successful outcome. 

¨   The current healthcare system rewards more costly and invasive procedures, while refusing to reimbursing therapies that prevent the costly procedures.  For example, many third-party payers will not reimburse a diabetic patient for a $50 visit to a podiatrist that could prevent a limb amputation, but always covers the $30,000+ cost to amputate. See NY Times Video (4min)

¨   Recent studies show that employers are paying more for inappropriate healthcare for their employees than they are for appropriate care (New England Journal of Medicine March 16, 2006).  Fully 45% of healthcare provided to employees is substandard, regardless of economic status, insured status, geographical location, or any other meaningful measure.  Employers pay anyway. Moreover, “standard” care too often steers patients into those ineffective, avoidable costly procedures mentioned above.  Without 4Healing, healthcare providers have had no incentive to cure patients or no penalty for failure. Follow-up care for inappropriate care costs considerably more than if optimal care had been provided in the first place.  Employers pay anyway.  4Healing has made its business to provide the critical information and service to get optimal care to employees right away, thus avoiding the common practices of the business of medicine that drives up costs.

¨   90% of post-resident education for physicians is sponsored by or affiliated with pharmaceutical or device companies. Physicians are largely unaware of the efficacy studies of the plethora of scientifically valid treatments. Moreover, many of those that do look at the science are still wary of incorporating the specialties and modalities because often the treatments come from paradigms that do not fit with their education.

¨    Consumers have been thwarted from evaluating different treatment options for a variety of reasons. Yet almost half of the adult population seeks alternative care not covered by their insurance every year in hopes of relief because the mainstream approach has unsatisfactory results. Among the difficulties consumers face:

►  Consumers are simply unaware that there are scientifically validated treatment options for their conditions. Reliance is placed on the recommendations of their physician, who may not be aware of the plethora of scientifically validated treatments or their efficacy. Importantly, there is no practical way for a consumer to find a physician or practitioner who is familiar and successful with these other options.

►  There has been no efficient way (until 4HEALING) to find, compare, and contrast different specialties and modalities of treatment, or practitioner success with any modality.

1.New York Times Feb 22 2006   2.New England Journal of Medicine March 16, 2006.

The fundamental reality is that most of the money paid by employers for employee healthcare can be avoided.  Consider the latest science:

¨  Whether you are a CEO in Bel Air or a day laborer in the south Bronx, the chances that you are getting inappropriate healthcare on any occasion is 45%.   (New England Journal of Medicine March 16, 2006)

¨  Employers pay for employee healthcare services whether they are appropriate or NOT. 50%-80% of healthcare costs are unnecessary and inappropriate. (Washington Monthly July 14, 2004)

¨  4Healing is the only firm that tracks practitioner success by condition, by practitioner so employees have the best chance to get optimal treatment right away.  We help employees find healthcare based on the science of medicine, not the business of medicine.

¨  Results collected so far show that for every $100,000 spent through 4Healing, payers have saved at least $1,000,000 that they would have paid out if they did not use 4Healing.  Moreover unless we can prove the savings, we don't report the savings.  See Actual Examples from Feedback

    4Healing has designed its business to be exactly aligned with the goals of its client companies: Successful treatment outcomes for the employee.  With the 4Healing approach, the employee  usually improves faster at far less cost.  4Healing uses continuous outcomes feedback, science, and information technology, to help the employee find the most effective treatments for their specific condition.  4Healing is not aligned with any organization, special interest, or modality of treatment.