Connecting you with the best treatment in the USA

If you get a critical illness, the important thing is to get the best treatment, performed by the best team available. In many cases, this means looking beyond your local hospital or even the best national hospital.

Preferred Care is about getting the best treatment. Our global network provides the world’s preeminent medical expertise for local treatment and, in those cases where local care cannot provide the expertise or critical mass necessary, we guarantee you access to the best doctors at the top hospitals without any delays or waiting periods. The U.S. is where we have the evidence to support our best practice and outcome approach. Here’s why:

• The best recovery rates - Statistics prove that the United States has higher 5-year recovery rates than countries in the EU.
  
• The highest spending on healthcare research and development - Greater than all OECD and EU countries.
  
• A consumer-focused approach to healthcare - The U.S. takes a patient-consumer approach to health care; PGH is dedicated to empowering patients.
  
• Independent hospital rankings - No other country has this.

PGH only works with the independently rated top 1% of hospitals in the U.S., so quality of treatment can be assured. Unlike most general medical insurance plans, Preferred Care is not contractually or financially bound to any provider. Instead, we ensure that funding follows our members' needs and that they receive the world's leading medical practice. We rely on the most comprehensive independent rating system - The Annual Hospital Survey conducted by U.S. News and World - to select the top 1% of hospitals: hospitals that consistently deliver the best medical outcomes under the most demanding and complex situations and that are ranked under a wide range of factors, such as specialties from cancer to heart disease, hard data like death rates and number of nurses, and reputation within the medical community.

From these, we select those hospitals most open to a quality-controlled, patient-involved process. These hospitals consistently deliver the best survival and recovery rates in the world because they have:

• Specialization in disease and treatment - performed by the best doctors in the field.
  
• The highest volumes of procedures - research proves that specialized medical teams who carry out the most procedures have the best outcomes.
  
• The biggest research budgets - many times bigger than even the best European hospitals, and often larger than an entire country's budget.
  
• The latest technologies and procedures - including many treatments that are not available anywhere else, as well as more time and experience implementing them.
  
• A "patient-first" mentality - open to patient-centered care and to cooperating with patient advocates like us.

USA-based treatment can be the solution to your critical illness

The US, simply put, is the biggest and best funded medical system in the world, and it has the cutting edge technology and procedures that are critical in the fight against life-threatening illnesses. That’s why it’s the number one exporter of health services. Only you decide if you want to travel to the US for treatment by a leading specialist. If you do, your Care Management Team and Personal Care Manager will make sure you are not alone – we’re with you every step of the way.

It's easy to look the other way when the subject of critical illness comes up. Preferred Care gives you a better strategy: planning ahead to ensure that your family gets the very best medical treatment that the world has to offer.

For more information about Preferred Care or to become a member, contact us.

Preferred Care is available worldwide with the exception of
residents in the United States, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.