Workplace Health Services Blog

Why Emergency Room Visits Are Killing Employer Healthcare Costs

When necessary, the care provided in an emergency room can be the difference between life and death. When it’s unnecessary, it can be the difference between profit and loss. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recently published a report which estimated that treatment in an emergency room costs on average five times more than similar [...]

How Urgent Care Centers Can Drive Up Employer Health Costs

If an employer pays for primary care at an urgent or immediate care center, he’ll need his own “urgent care” when he reviews his quarterly claims experience data with his broker! I was recently asked by an employer whether our plan would allow his employees to access urgent care centers for primary care (increasing their options [...]