The Araz Group

Mission Statement

We will enhance the value of healthcare services and
the inter-relationship of providers, buyers and users.

We are committed to:

• Exceeding the ­expectations of each of our clients
  
• Strong and consistent financial performance
  
• A respectful and challenging environment for each of us.

OVERVIEW

Since our company’s inception in the basement conference room of Fairview Southdale Hospital in 1982, our team at America’s TPA, America’s PPO, America’s IME and HealthEZ has been pursuing founder Nazie Eftekhari’s vision of bringing independent, innovative, intelligent, and integrated healthcare services to our clients.

27 years of operating under the same ownership and management (a record in the Upper Midwest) provides the stability to offer flexible, affordable, and innovative solutions to the marketplace.

As a company known for its innovation, we’re proud of our accomplishments. Here are a few of our “firsts”:

• First Preferred Provider Organization in the nation
  
• First TPA to offer a proprietary PPO
  
• First to offer medical management services
  
• First to consolidate insurance and consumer payments to doctors and hospitals
  
• First consumer statement in the industry
  
• First paperless statement - First “Green” TPA
  
• First TPA to allow consumers to pay multiple unrelated providers using the credit card of their choice
  through a single web portal

27 YEARS of Innovation

• 1982 The nation’s first PPO is born in the basement of Fairview Southdale Hospital
  
• 1983 Family Health Plan becomes operational/Medical Management introduced
  
• 1991 Family Health Plan joins The ETHIX Corporation
  
• 1992 Launch of IME services
  
• 1994 The Araz Group replaces the name ETHIX Midwest
  
• 1997 HealthEZ is founded
  
• 2002 The Araz Group’s PPO Network is renamed America’s PPO
  
• 2004 State-of-the-art claims system is implemented
  
• 2006 New corporate headquarters — 7201 W 78th Street, Bloomington, MN