Workplace clinics and employer managed healthcare : a catalyst for cost savings and improved productivity /: a catalyst for cost savings and improved productivity. (©2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: A. Michael LaPenna ; foreword by Ford Brewer.
• Other Names: LaPenna, A. Michael
• Contents: Introduction : workplace on-site healthcare as a catalyst for cost savings and improved productivity -- Company planning for healthcare and employees' participation in the planning and in the "plan" -- The myth of the company doctor -- Components and complements to on-site healthcare : planning to plan -- 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 -- The quest for a dependable return on investment : key assumptions and drivers -- The quest for a dependable return on investment : benefit and program design -- The healthcare "buy" : determine what to purchase by first figuring out what not to purchase -- Electronic medical records, personal electronic health records, the medical home, and the medical homeless -- Legal issues : contracting and regulatory challenges. 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 : site design and function -- Workforce and population analysis : prevention, intervention, wellness, disease management, and the care management team -- Special situations and some solutions (middlemen, brokers, third-party administrators, and consultants) -- Working with the vendors : the request for proposal and its application to the development process -- Political and functional barriers to establishing an on-site medical service -- Involving other businesses as customers of the on-site program -- The future of on-site services and the on-site industry.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton [Fla.] : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Copyright Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 658.382 L311; Occupational health services; Employee health promotion; Clinics; Clinics; Employee health promotion; Occupational health services; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420092455; 1420092456
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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