One of the most common myths in the employer sponsored onsite healthcare clinic industry is that if an onsite health clinic provider is a member of a Health System or affiliated with the local hospital, the provider’s only motivation is to refer employees to the system, increasing employer health costs. The proverbial “fox in the hen [...]
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
I think some of the hardest markets we’ve had to break into have been rural markets. It’s not because of geography, budgets or available resources, but because of the existing healthcare providers already in that market. You see, many rural (and even non-rural) healthcare providers see an onsite health clinic as direct competition. If employees are [...]
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Clinical integration. Really, it’s just a fancy term for being part of a health system. It basically means that your clinic is integrated with a system, hence the name – clinical integration. So what does integration mean? Usually it means that each part of a health system is connected. So, the physician at your onsite health [...]
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Most onsite medical clinics are going to be connected to or affiliated with a local health system in your area. For example, Workplace Health Services and the clinics we help build are affiliated with the Clarian health system. There are independent companies out there that plan and build onsite medical clinics, this system works for some [...]
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
If you’re an employer, you know that you’re likely the primary financial stakeholder when it comes to your employee’s health care costs (to the tune of an average of two-thirds of the costs). Does that mean you should be a stakeholder in their health care? Of course not. But, does it mean you need to [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
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