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VOL 19 ISSUE 7
July 2012
TULSA
NE Oklahoma’s Leading Consumer Newspaper
Low-Cost Healthcare Grassroots Healthcare provides medical services at an affordable cost for those without insurance. By Lorrie Ward Sometimes to deal with a problem, you have to go right to the root of things. That’s why Dr. Melita Tate expresses this desire for the future of healthcare in America: “I would love a few years from now for the history books to show that patients and doctors joined together and solved the medical problems without the government or insurance companies.” This vision of Dr. Tate’s didn’t materialize by accident. Over the years, she has witnessed the mountains of red tape involved between doctors, patients, insurance companies and the government. And just as uncoiled tape tangles together into a big, time-consuming mess, so has this situation. “Doctors can’t get to patients anymore,” says Dr. Tate, “because the doctor has to spend so much time on things like insurance
codes, which differ from company to company and are changed all the time.” Because of all these complications, Dr. Tate explains that medical costs also go up because doctors have to hire so much extra staff to deal with billing and insurance issues. That’s why Grassroots Healthcare keeps it simple, with affordable fees which are posted up front and are due at time of service. “We want to keep our healthcare facility free from government and insurance influence,” she says. “This helps us keep prices far lower.” To illustrate just how much lower, Dr. Tate recalls a situation in which she sent a patient to have lab work done at a place used by other doctors as well. Grassroots charged its usual low fee for the lab work, which took care of all costs involved for
both Grassroots and the lab company. Somehow, though, the patient’s insurance company was accidentally billed by the lab for the procedure and a detailed statement was sent to the patient. The matter was rectified quickly, and neither he nor the insurance company had to pay any further costs. However, both Dr. Tate and the patient were amazed by how all the channels that would have been involved with an insurance payment had increased the cost of the lab work dramatically: the price went from $60 to $400. CT scans are another important service that can be obtained at Grassroots, at a cost of $150, a price which Dr. Tate describes as “extremely affordable.” The services at Grassroots Healthcare include, and extend (continued on page 28)
Karolyne Velazquez, Dr. Melita Tate and Cherelle Allen welcome patients to Grassroots Healthcare.
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Go Where the Auction Is
Community Builders offers customers great suggestions for efficient home improvement.
By Duane Blankenship
America’s Auto Auction wants to change the way you buy a car. America’s Auto Auction of Tulsa provides a full spectrum of services to the public and to area automobile dealers in northeastern Oklahoma with two auctions each week. A public auction is held every Monday
By Duane Blankenship
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Community Builders, Inc. President Greg Wolter founded the organization while working out of his home more than 30 years ago. The company does home remodeling throughout most of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. They are not general contractors, but rather specialize in work they know best and do really well. That includes energy-efficient vinyl siding and replacement windows, SmartCoat spray-on siding, GutterProUSA gutter guard systems, sunrooms that are second to none, and metal roof systems. According to Greg, throughout their long history, Community Builders has impressed customers with their (continued on page 28)
Community Builders President Greg Wolter is proud of his company’s deep tracks of success made over the past 30 years.
www.valuenews.com South Tulsa 41,766 homes (This is a geo-demographic mailing list and delivered to homes in Mid-Town and South Tulsa.)
Bixby, Jenks Glenpool & Sapulpa 25,835 homes Bixby–7,626 Glenpool–74033–3,523 Jenks–74037–5,552 Sapulpa–74066–9,134
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evening beginning at 6 p.m. and a dealer-only auction is every Wednesday at 2 p.m. General Manager Monte Freeman says America’s Auto Auction is the only public auto auction (continued on page 28)
The staff of America’s Auto Auction (L to R): Afton Nordean, Judy Rumple, Gail White, Kathy Oliver, Monte Freeman, Summer Sanchez, Andrew Barnett, Christina Hinojosa and Sarah Lambeth.
Owasso/Collinsville 20,856 homes Owasso–74055–15,281 Collinsville–74021–5,575
Rogers County 21,712 homes Claremore–74017–8,635 74019–5,186 Catoosa–74015–2,564 Chelsea–74016–1,796 Inola–74036–2,166 Oologah–74053–1,365
Broken Arrow 38,664 homes 74011–9,170 74012–21,528 74014–7,966
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