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Research Reveals
The Problem
• Controllable risks account for the majority of problems and excess costs regarding illness, disease, accidents, health care, absenteeism and disability
• Without proper support there is a significant annual exposure to avoidable risks and costs
The Facts
• The quality of health care can vary widely by doctor, hospital, visit and patient which affects medical outcomes and costs
• 70% of employees and their families will use the health care system each year
• Over 60% of employees do not obtain or perform recommended early detection resulting in treatment delays, longer recovery and higher costs
• Over 90% of employees surveyed want additional support to better handle health problems and to avoid unnecessary medical risks, tests and procedures
• The quality of health and medical information can vary widely in print and on the Internet
The Solution
• Prevention, early detection and better health care save lives, save time and save money
• Having the right skills and tools can help employees and their families get better results
• Employers derive significant bottom-line returns by empowering their employees to take a more active role in their health care
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Immediate Savings
After implementing HPN’s services, clients see immediate improvements that result in:
- Earlier detection and treatment of life-threatening problems
- Better use of health care, company benefits, EAP and other resources
- Reduced health costs and lost work time
- Savings from greater efficiencies, vendor pricing discounts and reduced cost of goods –e.g. $40-$100 savings per person through improved service delivery
- Lower rates of increase (Health Benefits costs)
Improved Use, Quality and Costs of Health Care
Through Medical Self Care, Early Detection and other tools, HPN clients have been able to document:
- Reductions of 3-6 unnecessary visits to emergency rooms and doctors offices per employee/family per year
- Improvements in early detection, treatment and necessary visits to emergency rooms and doctors offices for 11 - 17% of serious health problems per 100 employees/families per year
- Savings in company/plan-paid claims from $186-$732 per family per year
- Savings in personal out-of-pocket expenses averaging $136 per family per year
Returns on Investment Year after Year
HPN clients have documented returns on investment ranging from 3:1 to 15:1 per year. The range depends on the strategy and how it is implemented and reinforced. For example:
- HPN’s self care training yields 15:1 ROIs each year for 5 consecutive years
- Flu shots yield annual ROIs of 4:1 or greater depending on the workforce
- Integrated multi-component strategies generate 8:1 or greater ROIs each year
Multiple Measures of Success
With HPN, your best practice solutions serve to improve health, health care, cost control, absenteeism and other key measures of success. |
Generate Results and Returns
HPN clients have consistently reported meeting or exceeding expected results.
Included are returns-on-
investment ranging from 2:1 to 15:1 or more per year depending on the strategy mix |
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Help Your Employees and their Families…
- Become inspired, empowered partners to reduce the threats of controllable risks & rising health costs
- Partner with doctors for better results
- Improve the use & quality of health care
- Avoid medical errors, improve patient safety & medical outcomes
- Improve confidence & competencies for handling common problems
- Improve early detection & follow-up
- Reduce risks of preventable illnesses, diseases, injuries & absenteeism
- Improve health status, resilience & healing
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Help Your Organization and Employees…
- Reduce health costs & rate increases by
- Decreasing unnecessary visits to the doctor & emergency room
- Accelerating timeliness of needed visits, related early detection & treatment, & decreasing the severity of serious problems
- Reducing risks & expenses of poor quality care
- Decreasing the incidence of illness, disease, accidents & injuries
- Decreasing costs of goods via improved delivery methods, efficiencies & pooling
- Reduce absenteeism & related costs
- Improve productivity & morale
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