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Cleveland Clinic Employer Solutions: Helping to reduce corporate costs, boost employee health outcomes
For employers, managing health care costs is not only about safeguarding the bottom line but also ensuring the health and well-being of their employees.
In this episode of the Florida Health Care Insider podcast, presented by Cleveland Clinic in Florida in partnership with the South Florida Business Journal, Meghan Cassidy, senior director, product development for Cleveland Clinic, explains how the Employer Solutions program influences costs and care.
“We build solutions that give organizations a means to take care of rising costs while improving the experience and quality for their employees,” says Cassidy, from transparent pricing to expanding access to care for “patients all over the country, many of whom are underserved in their local markets.”
A major component of the program is a focus on avoiding unnecessary care and the subsequent costs for employers and employees.
“About one out of every five times that we see a patient who thinks that they need surgery, we will hear, ‘You don’t need surgery’ or ‘You don’t need surgery right now,’” Cassidy says. “It’s an avoidable cost out of the employer’s pocket, assuming they’re self-insured and paying100% for the benefit. It’s also a reduced cost out of employees’ pockets because they don’t have to have surgery.”
Listen to this episode for more about:
- The Centers of Excellence program (5:31)
- Enhanced support for employees and families dealing with breast, colon and prostate cancer (8:08
- Medical directors who offer expert guidance to C-suite executives on issues such as wellness strategies and mental health (10:22)
- The Executive Health and Concierge Medicine programs (11:29)
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