Archive for Latest News
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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...
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Novia CareClinics Opens Clinic for School District
It was recently announced that Fort Wayne Community School District opened a clinic for employees which will be managed by Novia CareClinics, LLC. (Novia is headquartered in Indianapolis and per the web site operates about 30 clinics at this time.) This is the first of two such clinics the dis...
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AHRQ/Mathematica Research on PCMH and Complex Patients
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in conjunction with Mathematica completed a study of five different medical practices to attempt to begin to identify key components they had in common in successfully implementing patient-centered medical homes. The outcome was published in the Ann...
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IRS Update on W-2 Reporting on Healthcare Benefit Costs
Here's a link for all of you on the latest "clarification" on reporting the cost of benefits you are providing to your employees. We are not attorneys, so we won't comment on what this all means - but wanted to make the publication directly available to all of you providing on-site benefits to you...
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City of Lexington Opens On-Site Clinic
Marathon Health was awarded the contract for this clinic last year, but the clinic itself just recently opened. Interestingly, the medical director for the new facility is Dr. David French (formerly of Toyota). Recruitment of primary care providers is tough these days, but getting one with on-si...
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New Clinics
Just a quick update on a few new clinics which recently opened or are under serious consideration (and the trend continues with municipalities and other governmental units). The city of Albany (Georgia) just opened their Employee Wellness Clinic in early December, staffed by a nurse Practitioner. ...
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Johns Hopkins and Pepsico Partner-up for Improved Quality & Price Stability
It was announced this week (December 8, 2011) that PepsiCo has entered into an agreement with Johns Hopkins (brokered by Mercer) to allow employees and dependents (of which PepsiCo has about 250,000) to have certain cardiac and complex joint surgeries done for a specified bundled payment. The paym...
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MBGH Provides Tips to Improve Employee Health
The Midwest Business Group on Health is offering guidance to employers based on a five-year study, "Identifying the Triggers and Barriers to Engaging Employees in their Health Benefits and Wellness Programs." Those recommendations include "Consider(ing) the company's culture," including both "De...