The Grassroots Health Care Revolution by John Torinus

Author:John Torinus [Torinus John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BenBella Books

THE APPROACH TO ELECTIVE SURGERIES

Joining Lowe’s in buying elective surgeries from the Cleveland Clinic are Boeing, Walmart, Kohl’s, Rich Products Corp., and Alliance Oil.

PepsiCo cut a similar deal in 2011 with The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for cost-effective cardiac and joint replacement surgeries. PepsiCo, with a quarter-million insured lives, got more than a 25 percent participation rate for such elective surgeries in its first year. The company covers travel costs and waives all out-of-pocket charges for its people utilizing this arrangement.

“These programs are designed to help our employees and their families to live healthier lives and ensure a high level of workforce support, which, in turn, helps PepsiCo be a successful company,” said Bruce Monte, senior director of health and benefits.

Look at it another way: Why would employers allow employees to be operated on at an inferior hospital? It would border on unethical.

In 2012, Lowe’s expanded its contract with Cleveland Clinic to include spinal surgeries. It wouldn’t be enlarging the relationship if the cardiac outsourcing weren’t working beautifully.

Bob Ihrie, Lowe’s senior vice president, said, “Having the correct diagnoses, combined with surgery by the undisputed leaders in the field, will produce the highest-quality outcomes.”

Lowe’s, which has 200,000 members in its self-insured plan, reported participation beyond expectations, but gave no actual numbers. Employees see lower out-of-pocket costs and have their entire trip expenses covered by the company.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.