Private Healthcare Systems Adds Barnes-Kasson Hospital and B-K Health Center, Inc. to Network in Pennsylvania

Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS), the nation's leading health care cost management company, today announced it added Barnes-Kasson Hospital and B-K Health Center, Inc. to its PPO network in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Established in 1904 to serve the rural community of Susquehanna County, Barnes-Kasson Hospital is an acute care, short-term general hospital with four affiliated health centers throughout the area. Barnes-Kasson offers a wide range of medical, surgical, diagnostic and referral services, as well as family-centered maternity care, coronary/intensive care, chemotherapy, outpatient rehabilitation, a skilled-nursing facility and 24-hour emergency care.

The B-K Health Center office locations include:

--  Susquehanna Health Center (Susquehanna, PA)
--  Great Bend/Hallstead Health Center (Great Bend, PA)
--  New Milford Health Center (New Milford, PA)
--  Lenox Health Center (Kingsley, PA)
    

"We are very pleased to add the Barnes-Kasson Hospital and B-K Health Center to the PHCS Network," said Russ Moran, PHCS Executive Vice President, Networks. "For one hundred years Barnes-Kasson has provided the community of Susquehanna County with convenient and comprehensive health services. Barnes-Kasson greatly enhances our ability to provide our members in the region with access to a cost-effective quality network of providers."

About PHCS

For 19 years, Private Healthcare Systems has been meeting the network and care management needs of customers across the country. Corporate headquarters are in Waltham, Massachusetts, with regional offices located throughout the United States. PHCS is the second largest care management company in the nation as well as the largest proprietary PPO in the country. The PHCS Network includes nearly 450,000 providers and 4,200 facilities. PHCS is the first and only national PPO to earn four endorsements of quality from two independent, nationally recognized quality assurance organizations, NCQA and URAC.

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