Workplace Clinics and Employer Managed Healthcare

The advent of organizations considering an on-site approach to the delivery of health care services increases in direct proportion to the rising of health care costs. This volume is a how-to manual on the design and implementation of an on-site program and presents the challenges and benefits of such a system.

A how-to manual on the design and implementation of an on-site program. It discusses topics including hospital and specialty contracting; employee choice concerns; cost-control; ancillary services such as pharmacy, lab testing, physical therapy, and imaging; workers compensation issues; and, benefits consultants.

Workplace On-Site Healthcare as a Catalyst for Cost Savings and Improved Productivity. Company Planning for Healthcare and Employees' Participation. The Myth of the Company Doctor. Components and Complements to On-Site Healthcare. The On-Site Program: What and Who Are In and Out? Why? Cost Savings, Cost Avoidance, and Confidence Levels. The Quest for a Dependable Return on Investment: Claims Analysis. Key Assumptions and Drivers. Benefit and Program Design. Determine What to Purchase. Electronic Medical Records, Personal Electronic Health. Records, the Medical Home, and the Medical Homeless. Legal Issues. Working with Hospitals Rather than against Them. Utilizing Local Physicians as the Primary Care Anchors. Pharmacy, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Other Mysteries. Employees, Consumerism, and the Illusion of Choice. Ambulatory Care Nuts and Bolts. Workforce and Population Analysis. Special Situations and Some Solutions. Working with Vendors. Political and Functional Barriers. Involving Other Businesses as Customers of the On-Site Program. The Future of On-Site Services.