Direct-to-Employer Healthcare
Direct agreements with healthcare providers for occupational health services save you money while increasing employee satisfaction and the health and safety of your workforce. This practice is known as direct-to-employer healthcare because it eliminates the need for third-party administrators (TPAs) to deliver employee benefits. Arrangements between companies like yours and providers like Medcor allow for custom solutions that meet unique needs and save money.
How Does Direct-to-Employer Healthcare Work?
Direct arrangements, or employer contracting, between companies and providers eliminate middlemen while providing high-quality occupational healthcare direct to employees, bypassing traditional insurance carriers. When you work directly with a provider like Medcor, your health plans can be tailored through custom plan design to the particular needs of your workforce, allowing you to negotiate better pricing, enhance the quality of care and provide a better patient satisfaction experience within the health system.
Ongoing care management continues to save you money by preventing unnecessary care and ensuring your employees are prepared for a safe return to work.
Healthcare costs for U.S. employers have increased 47% in the past 10 years. And employers who fail to significantly reduce their healthcare costs could see another 50% increase over the next decade.
Finding solutions is critical in order for employers to operate sustainably. Pair rising costs with the challenge of retaining quality employees in a competitive job market, and organizations are more interested than ever in extending occupational health services to their workers.
If you are looking to reduce the cost of healthcare services and provide a better patient experience for your employees, employer-direct healthcare is a solution for improving price transparency between companies and healthcare providers. Medcor’s business model is not tied to insurance claims, which makes us neutral and transparent, ensuring your employees are navigated appropriately and utilize in-network providers for significant cost savings and eliminating excess fees for service.
The scope of occupational healthcare offerings is quickly evolving, and Medcor is at the forefront of creating solutions that meet each company’s unique needs. These include a focus on whole employee care, including mental health and wellness initiatives.
When Should You Consider Direct-to-Employer Healthcare?
Employers consider direct-to-employer healthcare for a variety of reasons, including:
Cost Reduction
Offsite medical care is expensive, and something you have no control over. With direct-to-employer healthcare, you reduce the need for expensive offsite services for injured workers, giving you better control over your healthcare costs.
Care Quality Improvement
When sending injured workers to offsite medical facilities, they may experience long wait times, inconsistent care recommendations and confusing return-to-work instructions. A direct-to-employer healthcare program allows the majority of worker needs to be managed onsite, allowing for reduced care wait times, care that is consistent with worker conditions and clear instructions for returning to work.
Service Customization
Different worker populations have different occupational healthcare needs, and coordinating offsite vendors for each individual need is expensive and frustrating. By having a direct-to-employer program, you are able to tailor the services your workers receive to meet their needs, including medical surveillance programs, onsite drug and alcohol testing and respirator fit testing.
Occupational Health Services for Employers
Occupational Medicine
Preventative care and care for work-related injuries, keeping occupational needs in mind.
Physical Therapy
Workers are coached, by a therapist, through exercises designed to rehabilitate them following an injury.
Injury Care
Onsite care for injuries provides your workers with convenient, time-saving care that saves you money.
Physical Exams
Provide your workers with the opportunity to speak with a healthcare professional without having to leave your worksite, getting crucial examinations on their own time.
Medical Specialists
Our care teams include physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners and paramedics, delivering the best care recommendations onsite.
Tests & Screenings
Provide convenient onsite testing for drugs, alcohol and chronic conditions to keep your workplace safe and healthy.
24/7 Injury & Illness Triage
This pre-claim telehealth solution connects injured workers with skilled professionals, navigating them to the right level of care for their needs and reducing unnecessary offsite visits.
Immunizations
Offer convenient access to immunizations and vaccinations, from flu shots to job-specific vaccines.
Workers’ Compensation
When claims are necessary, Medcor helps manage them from the initial injury to the worker’s return to duties.
The Advantage of Direct-to-Employer Healthcare
Traditional health insurance is complex and confusing to the average employee. When an employee is injured on the job, they may not know who to go to immediately for help, which could result in an unnecessary and expensive emergency room visit.
With Medcor’s employer-direct healthcare solutions, you remove the burdensome guesswork from the traditional healthcare process, tailor health benefits to your company’s needs, improve health outcomes for your workforce, prevent unnecessary claims, lower your costs and set your employees up for a safe return to work.
But direct-to-employer healthcare service is more than just injury treatment. Offering ongoing essential care services also improves the overall health and wellness of your workforce, and the data analytics available through Medcor captures trends in accidents and injuries so you can implement preventative initiatives.
Direct-to-employer healthcare does more than save you money. When you align your interests to better serve your employees, you can address and improve gaps in care, which also helps employees return to work sooner.
Partnering with Medcor not only simplifies the healthcare process for employers, but it significantly reduces overall costs and prepares your employees for a safe return to work.
