Workplace Clinics and Employer Managed Healthcare: A Catalyst for Cost Savings and Improved Productivity / Edition 1

by A. Michael LaPenna

Overview

Workplace Clinics and Employer Managed Healthcare: A Catalyst for Cost Savings and Improved Productivity is not another diatribe on the national healthcare problem. Instead, it is a book about what is possible. Mike LaPenna shares with readers the actual experiences of those self-funded employers who are moving healthcare access on-site and directly managing all aspects of their own healthcare delivery system. With the candor he is known for, LaPenna:

• Examines both the big issues and the nuts and bolts concerns that companies and their employees face
• Demonstrates the importance of employee participation in the planning
• Covers when and how to work with hospitals, pharmacies and other vendors

Much is made about turning healthcare delivery into a system that incentivizes wellness rather than profits from illness. This is the one path that assures such an outcome. There are no manuals to help your company achieve this goal, only the lessons to be learned from those who have walked the path. This book shares those lessons with you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420092448
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/23/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

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.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

If there is one key idea to take from this book it is that the ‘on-site clinic’ is a catalyst that allows all other programming to ‘work better’ and to be more coordinated and internally complementary. … Mr. La Penna’s book outlines the many aspects of how to think about an on-site program and how to implement one, once the decision is made. These features alone recommend the book as a valuable reference but there are other parts of the book which address important tangents and support programs which complement the employer sponsored on-site clinic. The underlying premise is that the employer must first start, as Toyota did, with planning and design. Hopefully, this book will give those who are embarking on this process a much needed road map.
—Ford Brewer, M.D., Medical Director, Toyota Motor Manufacturing of North America

Editorial Reviews

If there is one key idea to take from this book it is that the ‘on-site clinic’ is a catalyst that allows all other programming to ‘work better’ and to be more coordinated and internally complementary. … Mr. La Penna’s book outlines the many aspects of how to think about an on-site program and how to implement one, once the decision is made. These features alone recommend the book as a valuable reference but there are other parts of the book which address important tangents and support programs which complement the employer sponsored on-site clinic. The underlying premise is that the employer must first start, as Toyota did, with planning and design. Hopefully, this book will give those who are embarking on this process a much needed road map.
—From the Foreword by Ford Brewer, M.D., Medical Director, Toyota Motor Manufacturing of North America

A smart book for intelligent, broad-based healthcare delivery, Workplace Clinics delivers practical proven approaches to corporate healthcare, especially creating and supporting wellness. ... for us, the most credible and useful piece of this foundation guide is Appendix D, the On-side Provider Listing that includes a partial list of workplace healthcare sites visited and/or sampled by the author.
—Blue Heron Journal, November 2013

From the Publisher