When it comes to sports championships, the team with the best players does not always take home the trophy; the team with the best team invariably does. This adage can be applied to occupational health as well.
Collecting a urine specimen has been the gold standard for drug testing in the workplace. But that could all change.
Q: Why innovative marketing tactics? Why not the tried and true?
A: “Strike a balance between the two extremes. Maintain winning marketing tactics while offering something new.”
Q: Do most TPAs have an interest in the same core metrics or is there considerable variance from TPA to TPA?
Q : What changes are needed when an occupational health program becomes blended with urgent care? Does the medical director’s role change?
A: “We have a dedicated occupational medicine clinic that our medical director is responsible for, but we have a number of workplace clinics that our own employees utilize. So there’s some blending there and our medical director is responsible for all of them.”
The ability to quantify the effectiveness of workplace health and safety interventions––once an elusive goal––is now within the grasp of employers and their medical provider partners.
In the last issue of VISIONS, we reported that Humana had just agreed to sell Concentra to a joint venture comprised of Select Medical and Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe. The selling price was $1.055 billion in cash and the deal closed in June.
Q: What are the core reporting metrics for senior management? We begin by telling our clients, ‘What is important to you may not be applicable to them.’
Websites are such a common business tool that it’s going to reflect poorly on your program if you don’t have one.
Healthcare in the United States has undergone a transformation in large part due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Occupational health has also been transformed by the ACA–and by all the new service lines that have sprouted up in programs around the country.