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The Alliance moves health care forward by controlling costs, improving quality, and engaging individuals in their health. We value the partnership we have in working with agents and consultants. Learn more about the benefits of working with The Alliance. 
Alliance e-Resource
Working Together to Serve Your Clients
September 2009
 
In This Issue
Link to The Alliance
Your Discount Partner
Need an Alliance
link for your Web site?
 

The Alliance changed its Web site about a year ago. Feel free to link your site to one of these helpful areas:
 
Find A Doctor: 
http://www.the-alliance.org/find_doctor.aspx This directory is the place to find the 7,000 doctors and health professional at more than 2,000 clinic locations and 47 hospitals that we work with, as well as the many home health care entities we provide access to. 
 
Our Service Areas:
http://www.the-alliance.org/learn.aspx?id=110
Learn more about our primary and secondary service areas.
 
Network Composition:
http://www.the-alliance.org/learn.aspx?id=76
Learn more about our numbers... how much health care we purchase, lives covered, and the providers we contract with.
Greetings!

Welcome to your second Alliance e-Resource. This quarterly e-mail keeps you up-to-date on Alliance products and services to help you serve your clients.
Your Discount Partner
As you head into renewal time, look to The Alliance for valuable savings and discounts that you can pass on to our mutual clients. During these hard economic times, here are a just a few of the savings available through The Alliance:
 
Network Savings: Our total average savings for all networks (medical and surgical, chiropractic,mental health, and substance abuse treatment) increased more than 2 percent to 28.2 percent in the past fiscal year.
 
Reinsurer Discounts: More than 35 stop-loss carriers have agreed to offer additional discounts for employers that are members of The Alliance. The discounts range from 7 to 52 percent, and are based on a thorough evaluation of our contract effectiveness with health care providers and facilities.
 
Delta Dental and DeltaVision: Our partnership with Delta Dental and DeltaVision translate into administrative and premium discounts for these benefits.
 
WisconsinRx: Employers can save on prescription benefit management through ourpartnership with WisconsinRx, a cooperative whose group purchasing power translates into volume discounts.
 
National Network Access: We partner with National Health Benefits Corporation (NHBC) to provide a cost-effective solution for national network coverage. The National Access Program offers significant savings, extensive access, and superior customer satisfaction including refunds if they do not meet stated guarantees.
 
Healthy People at Work: Provides Alliance members with a cost-efficient network of providers for workers' compensation health-care related claims. Savings vary, but participants experience average gross savings of 30.1 percent. 

For more information about these or any other of our products, contact Diane Loram or 800.223.4139 x 6643.