Workplace clinics and employer managed healthcare
Subtitle: a catalyst for cost savings and improved productivity
By: author, A. Michael LaPenna.
Publisher: Productivity Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781420092448
Subjects: Occupational health services; Employee health promotion; Clinics; Delivery of Health Care -- economics -- United States; Employer Health Costs -- United States; Workplace -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : workplace on-site health care as a catalyst for cost; title: Savings and improved productivity; title: Company planning for healthcare and employees' participation in the planning and in the "plan"; title: The myth of the company doctor; title: Components and complements to on-site healthcare : planning to plan; title: The on-site program, what and who are in and out? Why?; title: Cost savings, cost avoidance, and confidence levels; title: The quest for a dependable ROI/claims analysis; title: The quest for a dependable ROI/key assumptions and drivers; title: The quest for a dependable ROI/benefit and program design; title: The healthcare "buy": determine what to purchase by first figuring out what not to purchase; title: EMR's, PEHR's, the medical home, and the medical homeless; title: Legal issues : contracting and regulatory challenges; title: Working with hospitals rather than against them; title: Utilizing local physicians as the primary care anchors; title: Pharmacy, PBM's and other mysteries; title: Employees, consumerism, and the illusion of choice; title: Ambulatory care "nuts and bolts" : site design and function; title: Work force and population analysis : prevention, intervention, wellness, disease management, and the care management team; title: Special situations and some solutions (middlemen, brokers, TPA's, consultants); title: Working with vendors : the RFP and its application to the development process; title: Political and functional barriers to establishing an on-site medical service; title: Involving other businesses as customers of the on-site program; title: The future of on-site services and the on-site industry.