The Employer Led Healthcare Revolution 0

submitted by Sefira Bell-Masterson 9 years ago

This article describes employer led efforts to control their health care costs by implementing programs to help employees manage chronic disease etc. The theory is that if health care costs can be slowed, that money can instead go to employees as wages. 

"Intel’s pilot Healthcare Marketplace Collaborative (HMC) was launched in metropolitan Portland, Oregon. Over five years, it successfully implemented new clinical processes for treating six medical conditions and for screening patients for immunizations status and illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Although assessing the HMC’s full impact was not easy—and in a number of cases impossible given how the experiment was designed—the results that could be measured were significant: The HMC reduced the direct costs of treating three of the conditions by 24% to 49%—a tremendous accomplishment in an industry where slowing the rate of cost increases is considered a major achievement."