About Us

Tertiary Care Network, Inc. is a network of renowned medical centers that specialize in tertiary and quaternary services. TCN is affiliated with some of the most technologically advanced medical center and leading physicians in their field of specialization.

Tertiary Care and Quaternary Care are those services that require highly specialized skills and medical care; sophisticated technology and coordinated support services over an extended period of time. Often care is provided by medical centers that serve as regional or state referral centers and often are affiliated with schools of medicine who participate in undergraduate and graduate medical education. Tertiary and Quaternary care would include transplantation and other highly specialized medical and surgical care for unusual, advanced and complex medical procedures and treatments.

So what makes us different from the other transplant networks in the market today? It is simple; TCN differs from our competitors in that the ownership is not that of an insurance company or health plan but rather by individuals and an advisory board of provider advocates. The owners appreciate both the struggles of an employer in funding the cost of a transplant and the struggles of a provider to get paid a fair fee timely and accurately.

The processing of transplant claims is complex. Often, third party administrators, health plans and insurance companies fail to accurately process, adjudicate and find themselves challenged with interpreting claims for transplant services. TCN is an advocate of the transplant teams serving as a business extension of their program to ensure that payment is made properly, timely and accurately.

Our goals in building this network is to help the employers realize a savings, to coordinate efforts of the payor and provider to ensure providers are paid, to diversify the source of patients to transplant centers allowing no one center of excellence program to be dominated resulting in potential reimbursements cuts by that carrier and to help the patients of our physicians in funding their cost share of an expenses service.