Dr. Faber, a urologist, could be the first person to make money coming up with an answer. Get Well, which opened its Nashville center last April and is planning to expand nationwide, receives upfront cash.
Companies get their employees for the day.
Others are small and heavily subsidized, affiliated with a local hospital or regular day-care center. Mr. LoJacono says Get Well has a better financial model because it gets cash from companies even before its services are used. For a Get Well center to break even, he figures it needs to sell 5,500 days a year, which he thinks could happen later this spring. My youngest son would scream. Dr. Faber says that once parents try Get Well, many of them go back.