Employer groups of all sizes will realize cost savings through decreased absenteeism and increased productivity.
For example, average time spent away from work for a physician visit to an UpShot Health Center is 20-30 minutes as compared to 3+ hours for a visit to a community-based physician.
Imagine two 30-year-old employees with diabetes. One employee is visiting the employer’s UpShot Health Center every three months, requiring about 30 minutes each visit. At that time, the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) is monitoring labs, blood pressure, and educating the employee on healthy eating and exercise. The FNP is reviewing meds and wellness progress, educating, motivating and helping to set reachable goals for the patient, all in an effort to control the diabetes and prevent catastrophic illnesses related to the condition.
The other employee has no UpShot Health Center and must take time away from work to go to his Primary Care Physician (PCP), which is a ½-hour drive on average to and from work, travel to a lab for lab work (another hour), and then has to wait a week for results, only to have to go back to the PCP to review - more drive and visit time. At that time the PCP may change medications, etc. Another appointment is made for three months down the road, and a similar scenario plays out. The frustration lies with the employee's need to spend so much time away from work which leads to non-compliance, which leads to further complications of the disease. For every half-hour spent at an UpShot Health Center, a person going off-site would expect to lose half their work-day in drive time, wait time, lab time, and follow up.
Return On Investment
A great reference for what is driving significant ROI for employers is the 18th annual Towers Watson/NBGH Employer Survey on Purchasing Value in Health Care. Surveyed were 583 employers with at least 1,000 employees collectively employing 11.3 million full-time employees, with 8.5 million employees enrolled in their health care programs and operations in all major industry sectors. The report focuses on the best practices of the top tier employers that had an average rise of 2.2%, less than half the mean and roughly in line with general inflation. One common theme amongst the best performers was that they had all embraced on-site health services.
The Towers Watson report stated that the most successful companies separate themselves from their competitors by making significant strides in six core areas:
Health improvement
Engagement
Accountability
Linking provider strategies
Technology
Healthy environment
UpShot Health is uniquely positioned with its staff and resources to be your partner in all 6 of these core areas to bring about a significant return on investment. Our strategies are focused on efforts to contain employer and employee costs creating a greater share of the employer’s budget to devote to other aspects of their rewards, including salary increases and retirement, which also drives your effectiveness in achieving talent attraction and retention goals. From our viewpoint, there is no better partner to achieve ALL of your ROI goals than Upshot Health!
Are You Good At Sharing?
Our shared clinic model allows smaller to mid-size employers the opportunity to join with other local area employers in establishing a near-site, multi-employer clinic for their employees at a lower cost of entry than a traditional clinic model. Multi-employer clinics are often full-time clinics allowing for greater access to members and easier provider recruitment. UpShot Health provides founding employer(s) the opportunity to recoup a portion of their initial startup investment through the access fees paid by other sharing partners who join at a later date.
Employers participating in a multi-employer clinic model are able to offer a comprehensive benefit to their employees and remain a competitive employer of choice in their community. The health center footprint in an existing structure is relatively small (500 sq. ft. - 750 sq. ft.) in order to provide services for 750 - 5,000 members from multiple employers.
UpShot Health's onsite health centers specialize in comprehensive primary care that revolves around prevention, wellness, early intervention and chronic condition management.
When multiple employers are using a single center, wellness programs can be creative and fun with inter-company wellness competitions hosted by UpShot Health.
Engagement and Outreach
Adoption and utilization of UpShot Health's services are imperative to improve health outcomes and generate employer savings. From the initial launch of a new health center through the life of our partnership, we collaborate with you to develop a comprehensive and multi-channel marketing and promotion strategy to drive utilization in a manner suitable to the culture and preferences of your organization. Wellness incentives are central to the effort as well, and UpShot Health's advisors and executive management have extensive experience in designing a wellness program that will work for your company.
Population Management
We monitor your employee population’s current health status and historical trends across multiple dimensions, including:
Participation rates in health risk assessments and biometric screenings
Enrollment rates in chronic condition management programs for eligible employees
Employee health outcomes and changes across population segments
Patient satisfaction levels
Review of utilization of community providers through claim data analysis to detect over-utilization and gaps in care
Wellness Services
Keeping workers healthy is three times less expensive than paying for sick ones.
Increasingly, employers are discovering the irrefutable bottom-line benefits of coordinated wellness initiatives designed to "keep healthy folks healthy." Indirect costs associated with unhealthy employees—measured in productivity losses—have been shown to exceed direct medical costs by 200-300%.
UpShot Health is fully in the business of assessing your employee population, stratifying their health risks, and then implementing proven, effective strategies for engaging employees and motivating healthier behaviors.
The advantages of on-site care are immediately apparent. As you'd expect, the ability to provide medical services like physical exams and health-risk assessments (HRAs) to your employees—right where they work—can help bring wellness participation and program compliance to unprecedented levels.
