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Want an Eye Exam for Your Employees?
Well, now you may be able to get them through a new mobile service, 2020 On-site. This company, started about two years ago, now offers mobile eye exams using optometrists and they'll bring the retro-fitted van right to your parking lot. The employer pays a fee for the service, and employees lik...
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Influx of Capital for Crossover Health
It was announced recently that Gurnet Point has invested approximately $92M in Crossover Health. This created a "partnership" between the corporations resulting in the two companies now becoming the "principal shareholders of the company." Crossover has only been in the on-site business since ...
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Employer Attacks Rx Drug Abuse Among Employees
We all hear nearly every day some new story about the impact of prescription drug abuse on society, law enforcement and healthcare costs. It has reached a level where the governor of the state of Vermont during his 2014 State of the State address focused primarily on the costs and impacts of drug ...
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NBGH Releases 2017 Health Plan Design Survey
The National Business Group on Health released a summary of their 2017 Health Plan Design Survey last week. The press release itself and, of course the actual survey, are worth the read. Ironically, a 5% increase in premiums (as projected by major employers for 2017) would have been a stunning ...
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Availability of Telemedicine Benefits Continues to Rise
It was reported in Becker's Health IT and CIO Review that telemedicine, as a benefit to employees, has increased from 48% of employers to 74% (2015 to March of 2016). That is a huge increase and you just have to check the stock values of these telemedicine companies to verify that growth. This ...
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A New Twist on Health
CNBC reporters Mark Dixon and Susan Shoemaker, both partners at Plante Moran, authored a brief article on CNBC.com about a new offering by some companies related, indirectly, to health and wellness - financial planning. May seem unusual, but when you stop and think about it, stress related to fin...
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Healthcare Systems Continue to Jump In
A recent article on HealthLeaders Media (written by Christopher Cheney), states that "Providing on-site and near-site health services for large employers. . . presents a golden growth opportunity for some health systems." The article itself uses Bellin Health System as an example of one such sy...
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Are you a “Best Company to Work For?”
Well, 9 of the top 100 companies noted by Fortune.com as a best place to work also offer on-site clinic services at multiple locations, not just their corporate headquarters or main site of business. Who are they? CHG (a health care staffing agency), also ranked #18 as a best place to work. ...
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Let the consolidation . . . continue
It was announced this week that Premise Health (a recent consolidation of Take Care and CHS which were individually significant players in the on-site provider marketplace prior to their merger) had acquired IMWell Health. IMWell has also been around for at least 10 years and has its headquarters...
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After all these years. . .
Manatee County in Florida announced that they will vote on the creation of an on-site clinic for their employees in the next month. On the Editorial page of the Bradenton Herald (February 4, 2016) it was noted that the issue had been under review for months with objections from the medical communit...
