WellCare Partners Opens Beachhead In Quest to Deliver More Convenient, Customer-Focused Healthcare

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. - May 2, 2016 - PRLog -- WellCare Partners, a customer-centric retail health organization, announced today the opening of its first retail health center in partnership with Well Now Physicians, PC.  The center, located directly across from Costco at the Bella Terra center in Huntington Beach and operating under the name "WellNow," offers routine healthcare services in a convenient and welcoming environment.  Central to the WellNow model is a transparent and low-cost pricing structure, which was specifically tailored for cash and high-deductible customers.

"We are excited to open the first of what will be many Southern California well care centers," stated Dr. Michael Tarnay, WellCare Partners' chief medical officer.  "Over the past few years, I have watched healthcare move away from the traditional medical office to the more convenient retail environment.  As an attending emergency medicine physician and former urgent care medical director as well as the parent of three school-age children, I see the tremendous value in this shift, both for customers and the overall healthcare system."

In addition to providing most common urgent care services, WellNow (http://www.wellnowcenters.com/) provides "wellcare" products such as travel vaccines, B12 shots, physical exams, nutritional counseling, and concussion testing.  The centers are convenience-centric, with extended operating hours, easy-to-schedule appointments, plus onsite prescription dispensing and laboratory tests. The centers accept Medicare and most PPOs and cash prices are typically 25 to 30% lower than those found at family medicine or urgent care facilities.