Archive for Evaluation Tools
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DirectPath Rewards in Use
DirectPath Rewards was formed in mid-2016. Pretty unique in its scope of services, DirectPath offers benefits education, but also the ability to incentivize employees based on pricing transparency with actual cash payments made to employees when they choose lower cost services. Of course, in...
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Some Articles of Interest
We're trying something new and providing you with a list of articles which may be of interest, instead of summarizing them for you and providing links in our own articles (we'll continue that style, too - but this may give you a shortcut to important information). So, here we go with our first pos...
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Premise Health Selects Epic for On-Site Clinic Technology
Premise Health, one of the largest onsite providers in the industry, recently announced plans to implement Epic Systems technology into its worksite health centers within the next two years. Epic is considered the leader in electronic medical records technology. Trent Riley, COO, says this i...
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Wellness Isn’t Just about Exercise Anymore
Perhaps we are overstating the impact of wellness programs in benefits packages these days, but the business now accounts for more than $7.8 billion annually as a market so it seems pretty huge. We know only a portion of this is attributable to services provided through on-site clinics, but t...
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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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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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New Data Source-MEPS
I have to say, we are delinquent in not bringing this resource to your attention sooner. We do have a link on our home page to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, however, were not aware until now of the MEPS data. This is the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey conducted annually by...
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Helping Your Employees “Engage”
All employers have difficulty getting employees to use the tools they offer them for improving their healthcare and reducing costs. In a recent professional journal review, we found a listing of some tools you might consider offering or making your employees aware of which allow them to be better ...
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Speaking of Hospital Costs and Surgery
We just published a reference to an article in Becker's Hospital Review comparing medical versus surgical inpatient admissions and costs. Soooo - we thought you might also be interested in a brief article published on the DallasNews web site about elective surgery volume (using data for Medicare p...
