Bernard Health Opens the Country’s First Independent Healthcare Retail Store Across From Vanderbilt 100 Oaks in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee (Vocus/PRWEB) November 30, 2010

Today, Bernard Health announced the opening of the first healthcare retail store of its kind in the country at 720 Thompson Lane across from Vanderbilt 100 Oaks, next to Baja Burrito.

Similar to tax advice stores where individuals are able to pay a fee for objective tax advice, the Bernard Health store is a place where individuals and families can pay a fee and get help analyzing and evaluating their health insurance options and medical bills.

Prior to the Bernard Health store, if individuals wanted help evaluating the best Medicare or health plan strategy, main options for objective advice included family, friends, and the Internet. With a myriad of options that are changing all the time, this was often very frustrating with less-than-optimal outcomes.

MediGuidance™ is an example of one product available at the store for people who have a lot of Medicare questions. With MediGuidance™, one can get objective advice from a licensed and credentialed Bernard Team Member as to which of the 14 different Bernard Health-identified Medicare strategies fits their situation best. Then, if appropriate, Bernard will analyze options available with different insurance companies and provide help, support, and advice all the way through the sign-up process. For this, Bernard charges the client a simple flat fee.

“Within the 14 Medicare strategies Bernard has identified, there are hundreds of combinations of how to receive your benefits. It’s a situation where it is often critical to make the right decision, but almost impossible to feel confident that the right decision has been made. We’re helping individuals and families with this, saving them time and money in the process,” said Ryan McCostlin, the Bernard Team Member responsible for the store.

Besides MediGuidance™, Bernard clients can also purchase COBRACounsel™, InsurAdvise™, and Med BillWatch™ at the retail store. These products are designed to help individuals and families with COBRA, under-65 insurance options, and medical bills. For more information, visit http://www.bernardhealth.com.

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