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Gaylord Entertainment Chooses H2U
Gaylord Entertainment (with four resorts, Nashville, Dallas, DC and Orlando) just announced that it will contract with Health to You to manage an on-site clinic for the employees at their Nashville location (4,500 of them). It seems like we're having flashbacks this week. We just added a story...
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Ahh! The Sweet Smell of Success
You know we believe in on-site clinics. So, it won't come as a surprise when we follow-up on a quick article we posted one year ago (yup! February, 2011) announcing that Pasco County School District in Florida had opened one on-site clinic, had two in the planning stages, all to be managed by Ca...
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Another Great NBGH/Fidelity Survey
The National Business Group on Health, with Fidelity Investments Benefits Consulting has released the second annual survey they compiled on Health Benefits. You can view it here. The survey included data for three different sized employer groups. If you flip to page five of the report, you'll ...
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PCORI National Forum
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (created by Congress a little over a year ago) will conduct a "National Patient and Stakeholder" event on February 27 in Washington. This is open to anyone and you can attend in person or by phone. The meeting is to encourage comments on the draft...
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Discharge Planning, Case Management – Include Your Pharmacist
A new idea? This is one we thought of merit and interest. Walgreen's announced a partnership with Greystone Healthcare Management to provide medication counseling and delivery services in person by a qualified Walgreen's pharmacist at the patient's bedside. This would be a standard protocol ...
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NLRB, HIPAA, IBT and PepsiCo – Duking it out over Incentives
Ok, so maybe I got a little carried away with the abbreviations and initials, but it was so darned tempting! The thing is, apparently the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) has now involved the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a dispute with PepsiCo over financial "penalties" b...
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The Law and On-site Clinic Development
Due to copyright requirements, we can't excerpt the article here, but we can point you to it. "Legal Considerations When Implementing On-Site Clinics" on the web site, http://ebn.benefitnews.com/news/on-site-clinic-fiduciary-liability-2721550-1.html. Worth the read, particularly if you are n...
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Do it Yourself?
We hadn't thought of this previously, but that is really what employers are doing when they provide an on-site clinic for their employees. With the economic downturn, DIY is the craze; it seems that everyone is working on their own auto for repairs, or home, or taking up those chores around the ho...
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Insurer Research Finds Benefit of PCMH
It is no news to those of you out there who provide on-site services that a patient-centered medical home model is a key factor in getting and keeping employees healthy; to say nothing of saving money in the process. But, WellPoint, the nation's largest insurer covering more than 34 million lives ...
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QuadMed Enters into Agreement with MDLiveCare
By now you have read that QuadMed and MDLiveCare have reached agreement for all the QuadMed owned or managed sites to use the MDLiveCare national network of providers to offer telemedicine in a variety of specialties wherever and whenever needed using readily available technology. The model used...