Population Health Management
Integrated Workplace Safety + Holistic Wellness Approach
Your job as a decision maker for your company has gotten tougher. The demand for better health for your employees is growing as is the need to contain costs. Meanwhile, many facets of the healthcare industry are changing rapidly, and many traditional ways of running employee benefits, wellness, safety and workers' compensation programs are no longer effective.
The population is still aging, disease management and prevention aren't what they could be, opioid abuse is an issue and your employees are still getting hurt on the job.
- Does your data tell you there are correlations between those?
- How do you measure your wellness program?
- What impact has health coaching had on your group?
- Do your unwell employees cause the most workers' compensation claims?
- How are your gaps in care being addressed?
- Do you know what your data is telling you?
- How do you measure your safety program?
Comorbidity factors impact the cost of both workers' compensation (WC) and health insurance. The number of WC claims with a comorbidity diagnosis has tripled since 2000 - leading the way are hypertension, substance abuse, diabetes, chronic pulmonary and obesity.
- WC claims with a comorbidity diagnosis of obesity are four times more likely to have an element of lost time than those claims without one.
- WC claims with a comorbidity diagnosis of substance abuse cost 22% more than those without one.
- WC claims with a comorbidity diagnosis of diabetes cost 20% more than those without one.
- WC claims with a comorbidity diagnosis of hypertension cost 17% more than those without one.
There is a synergistic effect when wellness and safety work in concert to address the health and well-being of a workforce. A successful wellness program will reduce or eliminate the co-morbidities that contribute to increased health care and workers' compensation costs. A successful safety program reduces or eliminates the risk of injury through training or other controls. When this happens, employees don't miss time and escape the many hardships that come with being injured on the job (financial, emotional and reduced quality of life).