Self-Insured Employers

In addition to contracting with PPOs and other insurance plan payers to provide healthcare services to plan subscribers, the Permian Basin Healthcare Network (PBHN) contracts directly with self-insured employer groups to provide medical and other healthcare services to their workforces. PBHN has been providing cost-effective and high quality healthcare to employer groups since 1995 (see current employer list below). Most likely, your employees and dependents already have an existing relationship with one or more of our participating providers. By placing our network in the hands of our directly contracted employers, employers are able to exercise greater control over their healthcare expenditures. Self-insured employers are exempt from state-imposed insurance premium taxes and benefit mandates. They also have more control over cash flow, can accrue a ROI on reserves, and can design a health benefit plan tailored to meet the unique needs of their workforce. PBHN works closely with employers, and with their insurance broker, third-party administrator and health benefit consultant to create cost-effective health benefit plans.

Current Employers

Ector County Hospital District
d/b/a Medical Center Hospital
4th Street
Odessa, Texas 79761
Contact: Harvey Hudspeth, Executive Director of Human Resources
Telephone: 432-640-1162
Approximate covered lives: 4,000

City of Odessa
P.O. Box 4398
Odessa, Texas 79760
Contact: Darrell Wells, Director of Risk Management
Telephone: 432-335-4697
Approximate covered lives: 2,750

Ector County
1010 E. 8th Street
Odessa, Texas 79761
Contact: Pat Patton, Director of Human Resources
Telephone: 432-498-4011
Approximate covered lives: 1,400

Click on the link below to see how the functional working relationship between the employer, the employer’s TPA, PBHN and PBHN’s network providers works.

Direct Contracting Relational Flowchart
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