The Most Significant Problem Affecting Healthcare Costs for Employers
The 8% of patients that account for 54% of health care costs primarily reside in the "Red Zone". These “persons with comorbid mental and medical conditions cost employers approximately twice as much as those with either condition alone" (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Report, Mental Disorders and Medical Comorbidiity, 2011).
These individuals consume unnecessary medical care as a result of their psychiatric, substance abuse, and other behavioral health needs with:
- 50% getting no treatment; and another
- 25% getting care that is ineffective or even harmful
- 50% getting no treatment; and another
- 25% getting care that is ineffective or even harmful
Introducing the Outcome-Based Referral℠
Employees take an anonymous, online assessment that evaluates for medical and behavioral problems. Patented methods then deliver each screened-positive patient with a list of available practitioners with proven outcomes, resulting in:
- double the chances of treatment success;
- improved quality of life and productivity;
- reduced absenteesim and medical claims.
- double the chances of treatment success;
- improved quality of life and productivity;
- reduced absenteesim and medical claims.