PATH ALONG 20.00 Per Hour Private Pay

PATH ALONG is an original Wisconsin model that connects inpatient providers to community staff who support the patient during health system transitions.  PATH ALONG is a self pay treatment in which the consumer pays the provider directly for the service.

The self pay equates to reduced  time with the intake process.  This is a consumer convenience that eliminates the costly labor attached to a lengthy prior authorization process with an insurance as the pay source.

The 20.00 per hour quantitatively attaches a measure of time to a monetary value.  This provides a grade of quality application that facilitates an essential standard.  This is a fixed characteristic common to all service and demonstrates a predictable conversion with analysis.

PATH ALONG service delivers patient benefits secondary to principles satisfactory to reason. 

1. Insurance (payers) have required increased severity of illness to be admitted to a hospital.  This strategy has as a side effect a patient who is more retractive throughout the hospital stay.  The patient benefits from the presence of another (familiar face) who assists the patient with ongoing interactions of care with multiple varying departments of delivery. (continuity of care)

2. Insurance (payers) have required shorter stays which translate to a more rapid discharge process.  The individual patients ability to heal varys in degree of time as a rate of recovery.  Not everyone heals on the same schedule.  PATH ALONG staff respect the patients right to ongoing assistance that expresses portions of the plan of care as the condition unfolds. (care assurance)

The patient is the beneficiary of the added support and pays a fixed fee to the service provider.  The fixed fee is calculated at 20.00 per hour.   This is different from the copay which was first spoken in 1959 and requires the patient to pay prior to the delivery of the service.   Out of pocket is a term first spoken in 1885 and is often used in relation to an insurance deductible.

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