About Us
The AIH and Beacon Approach
Atlantic Integrated Health (“AIH”) was founded in 1994 by physicians to offer accessible, cost effective and high quality health care services to employers and other health care consumers in Eastern North Carolina. AIH is a regional network of credentialed physicians who are committed and accountable to improving the health status of their patients and the communities where they practice while reducing overall health care costs for employers and other health care consumers.
health care providers into one regional health system. Beacon is a committed model of providers that offers employers.
Atlantic Integrated Health (“AIH”) was founded in 1994 by physicians to offer accessible, cost effective and high quality health care services to employers and other health care consumers in Eastern North Carolina. AIH is a regional network of credentialed physicians who are committed and accountable to improving the health status of their patients and the communities where they practice while reducing overall health care costs for employers and other health care consumers.
health care providers into one regional health system. Beacon is a committed model of providers that offers employers.
We offer accessible, cost effective and high quality health care services to employers and other health care consumers in Eastern North Carolina.
In 1997, AIH formed The Beacon Company (“Beacon”) to be the integrator of care that links physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers into one regional health system. Beacon is a committed model of providers that offers employers and other health care consumers, single contracting authority for a full continuum of services throughout Eastern North Carolina.
Objectives
The Objectives of AIH & Beacon
- Offer employers and other health care consumers an effective, selective, and regional managed care network of physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers at negotiated, affordable pricing.
- Provide patients high quality, cost-effective health care managed by physicians and hospitals they know and trust.
- Assure patients and physicians that decisions related to health care management and standards of care are made in Eastern North Carolina, not by insurance payers or other organizations located outside the region.
- Respond to patient needs quickly and facilitate access to care without barriers to effective treatment.
- Promote preventive services, early interventions, and the overall management of care.
- Establish relationships between health care consumers and providers that result in the development of innovative health care management programs that meet and exceed the needs of patients.
- Provide information requested by health care consumers and providers on a timely basis and in a format which is consistent with their needs.
- Promote quality patient care through effective communication among all providers, including primary care physicians, specialty care physicians, and hospitals.
- Facilitate development of a truly integrated health system that offers a full continuum of health care services throughout Eastern North Carolina.
Why Choose AIH & Beacon
The answer is effective and demonstrated value with accountability.
- Offer employers and other health care consumers an effective, selective, and regional managed care network of physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers at negotiated, affordable pricing
- Provide patients high quality, cost-effective health care managed by physicians and hospitals they know and trust.
- Assure patients and physicians that decisions related to health care management and standards of care are made in Eastern North Carolina, not by insurance payers or other organizations located outside the region.
- Respond to patient needs quickly and facilitate access to care without barriers to effective treatment.
- Promote preventive services, early interventions, and the overall management of care.
- Establish relationships between health care consumers and providers that result in the development of innovative health care management programs that meet and exceed the needs of patients.