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Your health program can affect bottom line performance
Will your employee health programs translate into better financial performance for your company? No one knows for sure, but studies performed by reputable organizations (HERO, The Health Project, and others) certainly indicate that investment value grows at a higher rate among those corporations w...
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Optum/NBGH Study
A white paper produced by the National Business Group on Health in conjunction with Optum shows that there is a correlation between reducing health risks among employees and improvement in absenteeism and presenteeism. The white paper is a summary of a survey conducted in which the researchers we...
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CareATC Celebrates 15 Years
Several things are new about CareATC but the one that is highlighted in this post is their birthday party and open house that is planned for October 22nd at 3 p.m. at their new Corporate Support Center. This is their birthday celebration and they will also be celebrating a network designation by ...
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Mercer Study Shows Employers Won’t Cut Onsite Clinics In Spite of “Cadillac Tax”
In a recent article in Forbes by Bruce Japsen, reference was made to a study of more than 100 large employers (by Mercer) showing that in spite of the fear of the "Cadillac Tax" on benefit plans costing employers at least $10,200/year for a single employee (or $27,500 annually for family benefits), ...
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Walgreens to Close 200 Sites
In a move that is related to cost cutting, Fortune (among many other news outlets) announced that Walgreens will close 200 domestic locations. This may, or may not, have implications for your on-site programming and strategy. I think it may impact your stock portfolio if you own Walgreens stock....
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Patient Inclusion in the EMR Process?
The New York Times is reporting in an article by Steven Lohr that involving the patient directly in their medical information is a future trend that is positive and somewhat of a game-changing event. It details one case and then goes on to address the fact that there are some major medical cente...
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New Data on the Cost of Medication Non-Compliance
Three published studies were recently summarized in a white paper by Healthentic (a population health management company) demonstrate that ". . it costs the U.S. health care system between $100-$289 billion every year in direct costs" when patients don't take their medications correctly, and "Losses...
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ROI – Once again, revisited
We have talked about ROI in the past, many time and also in our companion newsletter. However, we recently came across an blog article which is stunning in content, reporting on a peer reviewed study performed by Navistar, a larger employer heavily involved in creating a "culture of health" for the...
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Are you in control?
We all want to be in control, it's our natural instinct. But, as employers, how much control do you really have over healthcare cost, quality, access, outcomes, etc.? Usually, not a lot. But, we encourage you to read an article in the LA Times by Noam Levey entitled, Unequal Treatment: Whe...
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QuadMed Awarded AAAHC Network Status
It was announced by both AAAHC (Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care) and QuadMed yesterday (11/10/2014) that QuadMed had been awarded AAAHC accreditation as a network, an unusual and new accreditation status for multiple sites in a network managed by a single group (there must be ...
