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Who are our customers

  • Doctors’ Offices
  • Clinic/FQHC/RHC
  • Care Facilities
  • Self-Funded Corporate Plans

Doctors' Offices

Increase adherence, decrease patient costs, and access better consults Why send your patients away? New Frontier’s professional technologists complement your practice by bringing portable, hospital-grade technology to provide diagnostic imaging for a wide range of conditions including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, vascular conditions and more. Send New Frontier an order, let us use an exam room and we do the rest. You get consistent, informed reports and your patients get convenient, affordable answers.

Get Answers

Primary Benefits:

Increase Adherence and Insights
  • Patients are 34% more likely to adhere with imaging recommendations if they’re offered in known, familiar setting[1]
  • Tentative diagnosis changed in 49.4% of patients and increased confidence in the main tentative diagnosis in 89.2% of patients[2]
  • Treatment plans changed in 26.5% of patients when ultrasound used in practice[3]
Decrease Patient Costs
  • Procedures from NFMD 30% lower than “Fair Market Value”[1]
  • Improved insights reduce referrals to secondary care by 52% when imaging performed on site[2]
Better Results, Better Consults
  • NFMD aligned protocols, communication and Quality Assurance with Interpreting Physician partners (Healient/KC Ped Card)
  • All studies available to share with specialists via PACS (including images and reports); top interpreting physicians in the area (Healient/KC Pediatric Cardiology) available for consultation

Clinic/FQHC/RHC

Improve access to imaging, informative outcomes, receive quality results Patients deserve affordable answers to their health questions, no matter who or where they may be. New Frontier brings portable, hospital-grade technology to clinics across Kansas and Missouri, providing diagnostic imaging for a wide range of conditions including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, vascular conditions and more. Cut the travel and the costs. Your clinical team gets consistent, informed reports, and patients get affordable answers without hours of travel.

Access Affordable Care

Primary Benefits:

Improve Access to Care
  • Patients are 34% more likely to adhere with imaging recommendations if they’re offered in known, familiar setting[1]
  • Travel distance, availability of transport directly related to likelihood of adherence with imaging recommendation[2]
Improve Insights, Lower Patient Costs
  • Tentative diagnosis changed in 49.4% of patients and increased confidence in the main tentative diagnosis in 89.2% of patients
  • Improved insights reduce referrals to secondary care by 52% when imaging performed on site
  • Patient rate for procedures from NFMD 30% lower than “Fair Market Value”
Better Results, Better Consults
  • NFMD aligned protocols, communication and Quality Assurance with Interpreting Physician partners (Healient/KC Ped Card)
  • All studies available to share with specialists via PACS (including images and reports); top interpreting physicians in the area (Healient/KC Pediatric Cardiology) available for consultation

Care Facilities

Quality answers, fewer “inconclusive” reads, happier care team Quality should never be sacrificed for convenience. Care facilities have long realized the benefits of portable imaging for non-ambulatory patients, but quality has been a consistent challenge. New Frontier built imaging quality into the fabric of the company, hiring and compensating professional technologists, teaming them with experienced physicians, and equipping them with solid technology. The result? Your staff receives consistent, informed reports, providing the answers you need to serve your patients. Quality you don’t need to question.

Receive Quality Reports

Primary Benefits:

Improved Quality/Fewer “false reads”
  • Team receives high-quality reports from top interpreting physicians in area (Healient/KC Pediatric Cardiology) and have access to a real person for consultation
  • Coordinated protocols and ongoing relationships create engaged communication between Technologist and Interpreting Physician, resulting in fewer “false reads” and more informed reports
Quality at Competitive, Affordable Rates
  • No overhead means we can offer quality studies for affordable prices, including options for Patient Pay or Facility Pay, depending on what works best
Flexibility to meet Facility needs
  • New Frontier will define our service list, procedure hours, scheduling/reporting, notification and payment options to meet Facility’s needs

Self-Funded Corporate Plans

Control Imaging Costs, Improve Outcomes, Please your Employees On-site diagnostic imaging from New Frontier is an excellent addition to any self-funded corporate healthcare plan. New Frontier works with Corporate Clinics to perform imaging procedures in the same exam rooms used for other Employee healthcare needs, lowering employee time off searching for imaging solutions and eliminating the overhead of a stand-alone imaging facility. In fact, companies gain more control over their imaging costs, saving an average of 30% over procedures performed at an off-site facility. Finally, your Employees will be happy knowing that their images are read by the top cardiology, wound care and vascular physicians in the area; since New Frontier studies are interpreted exclusively by the physicians at Healient Physicians Group and Kansas City Pediatric Cardiology.

Imagine More for your Employees

Primary Benefits:

Quality Care at Affordable Rates
  • Team receives high-quality reports from top interpreting physicians in area (Healient/KC Pediatric Cardiology) and have access to a real person for consultation
  • No facility overhead means we can offer quality studies for affordable prices (on average, our prices are 30% lower than an Imaging Facility)
Improved Outcomes
  • Employees are 30% more likely to get procedures done if they’re offered in-office or familiar setting;
  • Gain information early in diagnostic process, 60% of patients don’t require followup imaging if diagnostic questions answered early
Happy Employees
  • 63% of Employers with on-site services say Employees spend less time off work, eliminating travel and wait times for off-site facilities
  • Employees feel they have more control over their health care spending, lower costs for imaging are direct savings for Employee’s health care
  • Employees get answers to their medical questions quickly; 95% of physician reports are returned within 1 business day of the procedure

FAQ

New Frontier has two payment models: Practice/Facility Pay and Patient Pay. 

Patient Pay – With Patient Pay, New Frontier collects the fee for the procedure directly from the patient or their insurance provider, if available. 

New Frontier currently accepts credit card and FSA/HSA cards for prepayment. Patients receive a discounted rate for prepaying for the service, based on New Frontier’s Fee Schedule attached to the Practice or Facility’s contract. 

For insurance, New Frontier accepts Medicare Part B in Kansas and Missouri; contracts are in process with Medicaid and private insurance payers, and these payment types will soon be available.

Practice/Facility Pay – Under Practice/Facility Pay agreements, New Frontier aggregates the procedures for a month, then bills the Practice or Facility in arrears. Payment is due within 20 days of receipt.

Yes, all procedures must be ordered by a physician.

Actually, we come close to you. New Frontier performs procedures in doctor’s offices, clinics, and care facilities. Procedures must be ordered through a participating facility, which will also be the place where the procedure is performed. 

New Frontier believes in simple, patient-friendly pricing. The prices presented for our services include the full cost of the procedure, the interpretation of results, and the final report. There are no additional fees. Simple. 

We accept:

Medicare Part B

Kansas

Missouri

Medicaid

Kansas – KanCare

Missouri – MO HealthNet

Commercial

Aetna (coming soon)

Humana

United/Medica (coming soon)

Centene/Sunflower Health Plan

American Health Plans/American Health Advantage

ProviDRs

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