I get asked a lot how we lower costs as much as we do on an employer’s healthcare spend (like the 20% reduction, after already being below their fully insured costs of 4 years ago that Tara Derbick Conger, PHR, SHRM-CP, CPCHC is helping achieve at Palmer Johnson Power Systems.) The answer is simple.....if you want results opposite of what you have been getting, trying taking steps opposite of what people are doing currently. When the industry goes to higher deductibles, we remove them. When the industry goes to narrow networks, we remove networks. When the industry goes to narrow formularies, we expand them. When the industry invests in specialty care and surgical centers, we invest in primary care. When the industry looks to bring in more insurance products, we bring in less. Instead of increasing obstacles to getting any and all care, we need to be removing all obstacles to getting the right care. What is your opposite? What are you doing to #breakthestatusquo? Andy Neary Bob Gearhart Jr. John W. Sbrocco, CSFS Eric Silverman Deb Ault Jeff Bernhard anything to add?
Respectfully, be careful what you wish for Dr. David Himmelstein! :-)
Keep pushing all of us to challenge the old/current/stale way of thinking! You make all of us better by doing this. Thank you for always taking the time to beat the drum! If we all keep chipping away at this, we will plant seeds of change that will hopefully grow over time.
All great ideas for those larger groups with reporting.....What's the solution for smaller employers?
100% agree, spend money on wellness and preventative care up front
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein
Will We Ever See HIT Interoperability, Costs, Outcomes and Value Revealed? Howard Green, MD | May 17, 2015 https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/connectivity-interoperability-our-lifetime-howard-green-md
When the industry obsesses with forcing people to annually go to the doctor when they aren't sick, we recommend actually reading the guidelines on how often you should do that, which is to say somewhere between every few years and not at all
Director of HR @ Didion Milling | Responsible for all HR disciplines
7 年How are you doing this? Would love to hear more!