Our clinical services reduce the need
for more expensive healthcare

Primary care, offered by our experienced, certified healthcare professionals on site, delivers the lowest cost and best return of any clinical healthcare services (it’s substantially less expensive for a nurse practitioner to operate a small, well-equipped clinic than for a hospital system to run an emergency services or acute care unit).

There are two ways to control healthcare costs — make the cost of treating illness lower and reduce the need for expensive clinical services. We use both, delivering cost-effective, competitively priced clinical services and using preventive health to improve or manage chronic conditions.

Targeting the key drivers of rising healthcare costs

On average, 5% of a healthcare system’s patients account for 50% of its costs.  We target this 5%, with regular checkups and generic prescription medications to improve or manage their chronic conditions, and reduce the need for more expensive clinical care.  Our customized programs target the key drivers of higher healthcare costs:

The price tag for an experienced workforce

According to the U.S. Workplace Wellness Alliance, the fastest growing cost for employers is employee health benefits (an aging workforce is more expensive to insure and care for because of health risks and chronic illness).  The USWAA also notes that “investments in prevention, health risk reduction and disease management programs have demonstrated returns on investment.”  You can browse more about the USWAA business case for preventive care at http://www.uswwa.org/the-business-case/.

Clinical care for the at-risk employees who drive healthcare costs higher

Preventing problems costs less than solving them.  If you’re paying for employee healthcare, you know how expensive it is to treat heart attacks, strokes and diabetes.  OnSite Health’s nurse practitioners target the conditions that drive healthcare costs higher.  We can help your employees lower their blood pressure and lipids, manage their diabetes, lose weight or quit smoking.

Improving your employees’ health saves money in various ways, as medical costs are less than 50% of your total health and productivity-related expenses.  Our workplace healthcare programs also reduce expenses related to the following:

• Employee absence
• Productivity losses (“presenteeism”)
• Workers’ compensation
• Incidental absence
• Employee turnover

The OnSite Health clinical services model improves on the health insurance provider model, which offers lab work and health risk assessments without individual follow-up.  Our healthcare professionals provide education, counseling and clinical follow-up to help at-risk employees manage their conditions.  Without this critical workplace component, you and your employees end up paying higher premiums because test values are high and there’s no help available to reduce them.

We start with an individual health history, taking blood for lab testing and measuring blood pressure. Each employee is scheduled for a 15-50 minute appointment with an OnSite Health healthcare professional, to discuss results and develop a mutually agreed-upon plan of care. This can reduce the number of visits employees make for more expensive clinical services off-site, such as urgent care and hospital emergency rooms. Our healthcare professionals support your employee’s primary care physicians, providing time-intensive education and high-frequency monitoring, such as blood pressure and glucose monitoring.

Workplace healthcare is proven to help employees manage chronic health conditions and maintain better overall health, while reducing the time spent away from the job visiting off-site providers (productivity losses related to personal and family health problems cost U.S. employers $1,685 per employee per year, or $674,000 for 400 employees per year). Ongoing health monitoring and individual education at the workplace also ensures that your employees’ visits to their family doctor or primary care provider are more informative and productive.

This section provides more information on the range of OnSite Health workplace healthcare services.  To assess the overall health of your workforce and how we can improve key health metrics, contact Duveen Woolbright, OnSite Health Director of Clinical Operations, at 864.590.6932 or email us.