The phrase "alternative provider" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a different source or supplier of a service or product, often in comparison to a primary or traditional provider.
Example: "In the healthcare sector, many patients are seeking alternative providers for holistic treatments."
Alternatives: "substitute provider" or "secondary provider".
When a customer chooses an alternative provider, that provides an important signal of how the monopolist needs to get better to get that customer back.
In 2004 the government launched a new kind of contract for general practitioners: alternative provider medical services.
AN ALTERNATIVE PROVIDER Dental schools sometimes have clinics where advanced students do implant procedures at reduced rates.
More than 2,000 international students must now find an alternative course with an alternative provider, or face having to leave the UK.
The emaciated breast cancer patient who was told to present to emergency because there was nothing else her alternative provider could do to help her walk.
Fourth, there has to be choice for the user of public services and the ability, where provision of the service fails, to have an alternative provider.
It was designed as a means of liberation – so that the small could challenge the big, the poor could challenge the rich with the power of a new approach, an alternative provider, an imaginative, liberating shift.
Their 'alternative provider' moniker --like sothery other inaccurate, pejorative 'alternative' references in legal nomenclature should be jettisoned.
Perhaps its time to retire the 'alternative provider' moniker for companies like ULX and Axiom they are mainstream.
The oncology nurses and the CAM providers will be recruited through The Norwegian Nurses Organization, The Association for Alternative Provider Organizations (Saborg), The Norwegian Acupuncture Association and The Norwegian Healer Association.
Personal Medical Services (PMS) and Alternative Provider Medical Service APMSS) contracts are more flexible [ 22] if more laborious to manage.
