Workplace Healthcare FAQs
Below are a list of common questions and answers regarding workplace healthcare services:
1. How does OnSite Health work?
We offer workplace health services at your offices or plants. We turn an available space into a clinical care examination room, with an exam chair and all necessary diagnostic equipment. OnSite Health also serves companies with multiple smaller sites (our healthcare professionals carry their diagnostic equipment and use a client-provided location, such as a conference or break room).
Our experienced, certified nurse practitioners see your employees on a routine basis after their initial assessments. These routine visits support compliance with prescriptions and recommendations for improved clinical outcomes and better employee health.
2. How does OnSite Health help me save money?
We help you save in various ways. Our primary care clinical services are less expensive and more cost effective than other healthcare services, such as office visits, emergency care, acute care and specialized rehab services.
It costs us less to provide healthcare services and we pass these savings along to you (one nurse practitioner, working in an efficient, well-equipped clinical environment, is extremely cost effective).
3. How can OnSite Health help lower my health insurance costs?
We have the documented ability to deliver significant reductions in blood lipid levels and blood pressure readings for participating employees. The data on resulting benefits, such as the prevention of heart disease and stroke, are well established.
When your insurance carrier pays out less for the costly healthcare associated with heart attacks, strokes and other chronic health problems, you pay lower premiums. We also lower your healthcare costs with lab work billed directly to you a greatly reduced cost (your insurance company doesn’t have to process OnSite Health lab costs).
OnSite Health also encourages the use of “$4” medicines, which aren’t claimed on insurance and therefore reduce your carrier’s payout for prescriptions.
4. Can you show me proof of lower costs?
We can share our documented savings with serious, qualified prospects conducting due diligence. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) provides federal protection for personal health information, but we can share data on workforce health improvements using our clients’ value measurements on specific conditions.
We produce detailed annual reports for all of our clients, showing workforce values in systolic and diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, diabetes and body mass index (BMI).
5. What kind of savings can I expect after one year of OnSite Health’s services?
We can give you a more specific projected total after our initial workforce assessment, but generally speaking, we use a baseline of 400 employees to calculate these savings.
Our clients average $500,000 in savings annually, which more than covers the annual fee for our services.
6. How does OnSite Health work with the employee’s primary care physician?
Our nurse practitioners collaborate with our patients’ primary care provider — they don’t replace them. Our nurse practitioners follow the protocols outlined in a collaboration agreement (we refer any patient with a medical condition falling outside of this agreement to their primary care provider for diagnosis, with the appropriate clinical documentation).
We encourage employees to keep their regularly scheduled appointments with their family doctor or primary care provider. OnSite Health can send employee health records to these physicians, with the employee’s permission, on a routine basis.
7. How do we get started?
Once we’ve agreed to provide contractual primary care services and defined our care protocols, OnSite Health nurse practitioners offer initial health assessments for all of your employees. This includes lab work for blood lipids and diabetes, an individual health history and blood pressure readings.
We compile and summarize the results of these initial assessments, discuss them with our client’s management and schedule 15-20 minute appointments between our nurse practitioners and your employees. We develop a mutually agreed-upon plan of care for each employee and then monitor their progress.
Confidentiality is of paramount importance (and legally required), so the reports we provide to management are summaries of the care and results for employees participating in the program — they aren’t specific to individuals.
8. Does OnSite Health have a tobacco cessation program?
Every OnSite Health clinic offers a tobacco cessation program. We create programs that combine information and proven treatment, customized for both the client and participating employees. In our experience, each patient has special needs, so the best results start with individualized care.
Our nurse practitioners combine nationally recognized programs with weekly visits and individualized counseling. Our tobacco cessation program monitors employees for at least one year after they stop.