The Register-Guard
By Sherri Buri
December 10, 2006
“At LCC’s health clinic, employee visits aren’t billed to PacificSource, the college’s health insurance provider, which has enabled the college to lower its health insurance costs.
“It’s crystal clear to us that the very reason we’ve been able to achieve an actual reduction in our health insurance premiums is because our employees have access to the health clinic on campus and those visits are not charged to health insurance,” said Dennis Carr, LCC’s executive director for human resources.
LCC switched to Springfield-based PacificSource on July 1. Depending on claim experience, the college expects to save $250,000 to $896,000 for the 2006-07 academic year, Carr said.
“It’s more than coincidental that at the same time we started our wellness program and opened out clinic to employees, our claims experience started moderating,” hesaid.
With health insurance premiums typically rising 12 percent to 17 percent a year, “we feel as though we’re onto something,” Carr said”
MSNBC
By Francesca Kritz
Nov. 4, 2004
“Darrel Dougalas, head of human resources for Blue Ridge Paper in North Carolina, which he opened an on-site clinic last April, says 80 percent of employee visits have been taken care of by clinic staff with no need for outside – and more costly – medical visits. Douglas says health-care cost reductions have been 8 percent to 9 percent above the estimates made before the clinic opened, in part because the on-site pharmacy encourages employees to use generic drugs when they’re available.”
The Times-Union
By Urvaksh Karkaria
Originally created Sunday, June 4, 2006
“For every $1 invested in on-site health centers, a company can typically save $2.50 to $3 in direct health care costs, Keller said. And, companies save more in “soft costs” like lost productivity and absenteeism.”
Gainesville Times
By Eddie Stowe
August 11, 2005
“Fieldale Farms has a self-funded insurance program… The company’s health plan spends less than $3,000 a year per employee, compared to the national average of about $6,700, Invester said.”
WSJ
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
February 11, 2005
“WEST ALLIS, Wis. – Last year Quad/Graphics, one of the nation’s biggest printing companies, spent about 30% less than the average company in its home state of Wisconsin.”
“Perdue runs its own medical center with specialists in fields such as podiatry and neurology and a pharmacy stocked heavily with generic drugs. In 2004, its medical costs per employee rose just 1%, after falling 0.75% in 2003.”
“The U.S. health-care delivery system is neither a system nor does it deliver health,” says Roger Merrill, chief medical officer at Perdue. Besides running its own clinics, the chicken giant contracts directly with outside doctors and hospitals instead of using health insurer’s provider network.”
Business Insurance
By Joanne Wojcik
June 20, 2005
On-site health resource centers aim to prevent employee illness.
“Since Caesars Entertainment opened its centers last year, the trend rate for its global life and health budget has dropped to a negative 5.3%, compared with the national average for employers ranging between 9.6% and 12%, according to Mr. Earl.”
Washington Post
By Amy Joyce
“We went in saying, ‘Jeez, you don’t have very many people here, and it’s a young group,’ – But Discovery decided to proceed, and after the first year… reported savings of $1,000 per person.”
Corporate Clinics at Work
By Julie Wilson
“John Neuberger, Vice President of Operations for Quad/Graphics said, as a result, Quad spends 50% less on specialty care.”
“We (New York Hotel Trades Council and Hotel Association of New York) provide a greater range of services than is commercially available at a cost that is approximately 50 percent of the commercial rate available… said Dr. Greenspan.”
“After the launch of the clinics, the company discovered it could treat minor illnesses and injuries far more cost effectively than outside physicians. In addition, an employee survey revealed that on-site clinics had the highest value of all benefits Pitney Bowers offered its employees.”