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Best Doctors®
 You can feel powerless when one of your employees is faced with a potentially serious illness, or has a family member faced with such a prospect. What can you do? How can you help?
Thanks to Best Doctors, you can do something. You can help ensure that your employees and their family members get the right diagnosis and the best treatment options from the start.
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Who is Best Doctors? |
Best Doctors is the world leader in connecting people with the best medical expertise and care, by harnessing knowledge from a database of 50,000 specialists from various fields of medicine. These specialists have been selected through peer survey and are considered among the world's best in their respective fields.
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InterConsultationTM: How Does it Work? |
Best Doctors InterConsultation is an in-depth review of a person’s medical files by Best Doctors world-renowned specialists to provide medical opinions and treatment plan options. Working collaboratively with treating doctors, and specialists, Best Doctors enables the person to make better decisions through knowledge, guidance and one-on-one support.
Over the past 20 years, Best Doctors has completed over 20,000 InterConsultations, resulting in a change in diagnosis 22% of the time and a change in treatment plans 61% of the time.
When a person calls Best Doctors’ toll-free number, he or she will be connected with a Member Advocate―a registered nurse―who will be dedicated to the person’s case throughout the InterConsultation process by:
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Gathering the required medical information on the person’s condition. |
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Submitting the person’s case to Best Doctors’ team of experts and top-level specialists. |
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Providing the person with a thorough report produced by top specialists on his or her medical condition. |
The person can then share this information with his or her treating physician.
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FindBestDocTM and FindBestCare® and Best Doctors 360°TM |
These services give your plan members and dependents a chance to go beyond the consultation process.
FindBestDocTM
Best Doctors will find a specialist if they do not have one and will arrange referrals*, appointments and accommodations if out-of town travel is required.
*Access to a Canadian specialist requires a referral from their treating physician.
FindBestCare®
While Best Doctors strives to work within the Canadian healthcare system, they will access hospital and doctor discounts if out of country care is necessary and will ensure vital information is sent to the medical specialists involved.
Expenses relating to the FindBestDoc and FindBestCare services are the person’s responsibility.
Best Doctors 360°TM
Best Doctors 360º is a unique program designed to help a person navigate the healthcare system. It provides the resources needed to personally deliver customized advice, guidance and one-on-one support to each person covered for Best Doctors.
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To Know More about Best Doctors |
For more information about Best Doctors and how it can benefit your employees, please contact your benefits advisor or your Industrial Alliance account executive. You can also visit the Best Doctors website.
BEST DOCTORS and other trademarks shown are trademarks of Best Doctors, Inc. Used under license.
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