White Papers – ImagineMD

HEALTHCARE IS BROKEN. HERE’S HOW WE FIX IT.

When healthcare is your second or third largest expense after payroll, you’re running a healthcare business whether you know it or not. Direct primary care simplifies the delivery of healthcare, lowers healthcare expenses, and creates transparency and predictability around the cost of primary care. It should be the foundation of any robust benefit plan.

Dave Chase, one of America’s foremost healthcare cost thought leaders, wrote in his book, CEO’s Guide to Restoring the American Dream:

Wasteful health care spending consumes 79% of household income growth, leaving just 21% for everything else.
Musculoskeletal disorders consume 4.0 – 4.5% of the entire US GDP. We perform double the musculoskeletal treatments of other industrialized countries yet get no better outcomes. This means 2% of our entire economy is wasteful.
Illness or medical bills contributed to 62% of all bankruptcies in 2007.
Despite what you’ve heard, unit prices of healthcare costs are flat in most of healthcare. So why have costs gone up so precipitously?
More than 210,000 people die each year from preventable medical errors in hospitals and other health care settings.

Direct primary care reduces the need for expensive specialty care while providing better health outcomes for your employees, maintaining their productivity, and saving you money.

“crisis in corporate america: How to reduce healthcare costs”

Businesses that fully insure their employees are almost always over-insuring their employees. That is, they pay far more in premiums than the medical care of their employees actually costs. For this reason, many businesses are moving to a self-insurance model where they pay the cost of their employees’ medical costs directly and have a stop-loss to mitigate against catastrophic medical expenses.

“WHY EXECUTIVEs DON’T NEED EXECUTIVE HEALTH”

Traditional Executive Health programs designed for business executives take advantage of the widespread belief that more medicine is better medicine. That is, if a test is available to detect disease, it should be done. While this sounds like a prudent idea—and an attractive one from a marketing perspective—in fact the number of tests that actually make sense to perform are far fewer than the number that are usually offered.

Direct Primary Care White Papers

“saving primary care: How to keep america healthy”

“crisis in corporate america: How to reduce healthcare costs”

“WHY EXECUTIVEs DON’T NEED EXECUTIVE HEALTH”