The BestCare & Beech Street Connection
A Growing Network
On January 1, of 2005, BestCare, Inc., was acquired by Beech Street Corporation, the nation's leading independently owned Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). Later that following year Beech Street was acquired by Concentra Network Services (CNS) in order to expand the companies offerings in the group health market and enhances its existing lines of service to the nation's leading health plans, insurers and third-party administrators.
In June of 2007, Viant, Inc., formerly Concentra Network Services, launched as an independent company. The Viant organization encompasses all of the previous CNS entities including: Beech Street, Health Network Systems, Concentra Network Services, Concentra Preferred Systems and BestCare.
Also in June 2007, Viant through its subsidiary Beech Street, acquired ppoNEXT, Inc. Established in 1999, ppoNEXT is one of the country's largest PPO networks. The acquisition will expand Viant's offerings in its network services segment and will enhance its existing lines of service to the nation's leading health plans, insurers and health plan administrators.
Viant provides outsourced cost management services to the managed care industry. The company offers a broad array of services designed to decrease medical and administrative costs for its customers, through its subsidiaries Beech Street, BestCare and ppoNEXT. In all, the Viant Network provides access to over 548,000 respected practitioners, 5,700 hospitals and almost 92,000 ancillary network providers, making Viant one of the nation's leading Preferred Provider Organizations as well as a leader in healthcare cost management services.
