Research Catalog

Title

Workplace clinics and employer managed healthcare : a catalyst for cost savings and improved productivity / A. Michael LaPenna ; foreword by Ford Brewer.

Author

LaPenna, A. Michael.

Publication

Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2010.

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Description

xvi, 262 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Clinics
• Delivery of Health Care > economics
• Employee health promotion
• Employer Health Costs
• Occupational health services
• United States
• Workplace

Note

• "A Productivity Press book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction : workplace on-site healthcare as a catalyst for cost savings and improved productivity -- 2. Company planning for healthcare and employees' participation in the planning and in the "plan" -- 3. The myth of the company doctor -- 4. Components and complements to on-site healthcare : planning to plan -- 5. The on-site program : what and who are in and out? why? -- 6. Cost savings, cost avoidance, and confidence levels -- 7. The quest for a dependable return on investment : claims analysis -- 8. The quest for a dependable return on investment : key assumptions and drivers -- 9. The quest for a dependable return on investment : benefit and program design -- 10. The healthcare "buy" : determine what to purchase by first figuring out what not to purchase -- 11. Electronic medical records, personal electronic health records, the medical home, and the medical homeless -- 12. Legal issues : contracting and regulatory challenges -- 13. Working with hospitals rather than against them -- 14. Utilizing local physicians as the primary care anchors -- 15. Pharmacy, pharmacy benefit managers, and other mysteries -- 16. Employees, consumerism, and the illusion of choice -- 17. Ambulatory care nuts and bolts : site design and function -- 18. Workforce and population analysis : prevention, intervention, wellness, disease management, and the care management team -- 19. Special situations and some solutions (middlemen, brokers, third-party administrators, and consultants) -- 20. Working with the vendors : the request for proposal and its application to the development process -- 21. Political and functional barriers to establishing an on-site medical service -- 22. Involving other businesses as customers of the on-site program -- 23. The future of on-site services and the on-site industry -- App. A. On-site references and reading list -- App. B. Claims request (complete listing) -- App. C. Pro forma example -- App. D. On-site provider listing -- App. E. Workplace on-site program consultants and resources.

ISBN

• 9781420092448 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1420092448 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009042471

OCLC

• ocn456641911
• 456641911

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries