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KelseyCare delivers the best use of health care dollars. We emphasize prevention and early intervention on disease.
KelseyCare is a product of Kelsey-Seybold Clinic - nationally recognized for quality health care. Our cost-effective model was chosen "the most financially efficient health plan" in four consecutive annual benchmarking studies of all health plans in the greater Houston area. Independent studies have consistently scored KelseyCare higher on quality clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Our philosophy of care
Kelsey-Seybold physicians have a 60-year tradition of delivering quality health care, based on collaboration among specialists trained in many different medical fields. The Kelsey-Seybold multi-specialty group practice is grounded in the practice of "evidence-based medicine."

Thousands of individuals and families in the greater Houston area are pleased with the affordability, quality and convenience of the KelseyCare option.

Organized systems of care deliver superior results
KelseyCare's model of coordinated care is the same used by the most trusted names in health care, such as the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser-Permanente, the Geisinger Clinic and Scott & White Clinic. With KelseyCare, you gain access to quality health care provided by the collaborative practice of Kelsey-Seybold physicians. This model offers advantages not available with large network PPO plans, including:

• Proactive outreach for preventive care.

• Kelsey-Seybold hospitalists to coordinate uninterrupted inpatient care with your Kelsey-Seybold specialist.

• Physician monitoring of critical lab values using an electronic lab platform.

• Kelsey-Seybold disease management nurses engaged with access to the patient's doctors, the patient's medical records, and the ability to directly schedule appointments for the patient.

• Elimination of referrals to out-of-network imaging, surgical or outpatient facilities.

• Maximum coordination between physicians and specialists through the electronic medical record system.

• Elimination of duplicate lab and radiology testing - all Kelsey-Seybold physicians have access to patient lab tests and radiologic tests, through our electronic information system.

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Reader's Digest Excerpt from "18 Big Ideas to Fix Health Care Now" November 2008 "We spend more than any other country on health care, but we're not healthier for it, partly because so much of the care delivered here is unnecessary," says Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. "The way to fight waste is by reorganizing the way doctors and nurses and hospitals provide care. There are models out there of high-quality, low-cost care, and they include some of the most trusted names in medicine: the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser and Intermountain Healthcare. These programs have a primary provider coordinate all the care. They understand that 21st-century medicine is a team sport. They also put a premium on analyzing the best available evidence and then ensuring that their doctors follow it."

The New York Times "Disruptive Innovation, Applied to Health Care" By Janet Rae-Dupree, Jan. 31, 2009 The health care system in America is on life support. It costs too much and saps economic vitality, achieves far too little return on investment and isn't distributed equitably. The country needs to innovate its way toward a new health care business model - one that reduces costs yet improves both quality and accessibility. To read the entire article, click here