Health care services providers help patients who are seeking treatment for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human illness, physical disability, or injury. Health care services providers connect people with doctor’s offices, hospitals, private clinics, and pharmacies to receive treatment. Health care services can also provide businesses with group health care solutions that provide employees with dental plans, vision plans, pharmacy plans, behavioral health plans, and supplemental insurance. Health care services providers are most often handled by HR departments at a company. They can connect employees with health benefits and other medical treatment that they are seeking. Health care services providers can be used alongside benefits administration services providers to help companies enroll their employees in life insurance, vacation time, sick time, pensions, and individual retirement accounts.
To qualify for inclusion in the Health Care Services Providers category, a services provider must:
- Provide resources to seek treatment for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human illness, physical disability, or injury
- Increase patient access, ensure clinically appropriate care, and manage claims and payments across the revenue cycle
- Provide access to pharmacies for prescribed medication
- Communicate with doctors and hospitals on insurance claims for medical care