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Patient Advantage Working for You
Why is Patient Advantage Important?
- Every year health care costs rise, sometimes in double digit increases from year to year. There is no end in sight.
- This is true for Health Benefits and for Worker’s Compensation costs.
- Patient Advantage saved $285.00 per person for a multistate client in 2009 on their health benefits alone.
A New Way To Control Costs
- Screen for risk of injury.
- Reach out to those at risk.
- Listen to those who ask for help in time of crisis.
- Use real time information to offer effective interventions.
- Customize wellness programs to be most effective for the group.
- Customize disease management programs for the needs of the group or clusters of employees as they present themselves.
Why is this approach different?
Patient Advantage
- Using real time information to intervene helps prevent the health issue from becoming a claim.
- One nurse offers all services to the same employees. This integrates the programs and maximizes the exposure to real time information.
- Success is built on relationships. Nurse Advocates meet face to face with members.
Competitive Carrier programs
- Using claims/predictive modeling to manage costs, causing a 120-day delay (or more) for action.
- Case management is a separate department.
- Disease management education is a separate department.
- Wellness is a separate department.
Patient Advantage finds the 20%
5% of the people will use 40% of the dollars.
20% of the people will use 80% of the dollars.
- You must find the 20%.
- Of these, you must find the people who are willing to make a change.
- With these people, you must do what it takes to make the change.
- Patient Advantage lowered the cost of health care for a multistate client by $285.00 per member per year when comparing the baseline of claims before implementing the services to the cost of the 2009 claims. The Return on Investment was approximately $5.00 returned for every $1.00 spent on the program.
- We offer services through a delivery model of registered nurses who will interact with the work force and their families by visiting the worksite, employee’s homes, or any location where a productive interchange can occur between the nurse and the member.
- Claims analysis
- Health risk stratification
- Myogauge technology used for predicting neck, back, and joint injuries
- Screening tool for preventing the “preventable catastrophe”
- Robust cardiac/fitness/nutrition program
- Proactive nurse reach out to people identified at risk
- Information Searches
- Patient Advocacy
- Disease management education
- Wellness programs
- Through the use of our “hands on” approach of making registered nurses available on a regular basis, we have been able to reach engagement rates of as high a 40% in some of our programs. This allows for a predicable return on investment.
- Other forms of return on investment include:
- Reduced Worker’s Compensation claims experience
- Less lost work time
- More productive employees
- Increased employee loyalty
To learn more about how the Patient Advantage program can help your business, contact us by phone at 866-695-2213, or send us an email at info@patientadvantage.com.
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