American Specialty Health Expands its Value Added Program by Offering Nutritional Products and Health Education Materials to Providers.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- American Specialty Health (ASH), the nation's leading complementary health care organization, announced an agreement with one of its subsidiary companies, Healthyroads, Inc., to offer ASH providers nutritional products and educational materials at prices available to ASH members. ASH providers can now purchase Healthyroads products at 15-40 percent off of MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) and are not charged any additional shipping fees. Healthyroads provides consumer retail, health education, and wellness programs. Through the Healthyroads.com(R) Web site, ASH providers are now able to purchase more than 2,400 health and wellness products, including vitamins and minerals, herbal herbal, early botanical book containing descriptions and illustrations of herbs and plants with their properties, chiefly those qualities that made them useful as medicines or condiments. Most of the herbals were written between c.1470 and c. remedies, diet and sports nutrition Sports nutrition is applied in most sports training, however it is most dominant in strength sports (for example weight lifting and bodybuilding) and endurance sports (for example cycling, running, triathlon). products, skin and body care products, and yoga yoga (yō`gə) [Skt.,=union], general term for spiritual disciplines in Hinduism, Buddhism, and throughout S Asia that are directed toward attaining higher consciousness and liberation from ignorance, suffering, and rebirth. and fitness equipment. In addition, the Healthyroads library contains more than 1,300 peer-reviewed articles on a wide variety of health topics. ASH providers have access to the most up-to-date, high-quality educational materials to distribute to their patients to assist in resolving their musculoskeletal musculoskeletal /mus·cu·lo·skel·e·tal/ (-skel´e-t'l) pertaining to or comprising the skeleton and muscles. mus·cu·lo·skel·e·tal adj. Relating to or involving the muscles and the skeleton. conditions more rapidly and to empower their patients to achieve their overall health goals. "Our goal is to take an active role in helping our providers be more efficient, create additional options and resources for managing patients conditions and overall health needs," said George DeVries, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of ASH. "At the same time, we can assist providers in lowering their monthly costs and overhead." American Specialty Health, Incorporated (ASH) and its subsidiaries are the nation's leading specialty benefits organization for complementary health care -- providing benefit, health education, and affinity network programs to health plans, insurance carriers, employer groups employer group Association of employers Managed care An entity with a current group benefits agreement in effect with a health plan to provide covered health care services to its employee-subscribers and eligible dependents. , and trust funds nationwide. Based in San Diego, ASH has more than 500 employees and more than 12.1 million members in benefit programs nationwide. For more information about American Specialty Health, visit us online at ASHCompanies.com. |
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