Tracie Canby, senior vice president of Meritain Health's Cost Management Strategies Division, discloses the most recent health cost trends, explains why the cost saving mechanisms used a few years ago have ceased to produce meaningful results, and discusses how new wellness strategies can deliver a healthy, long-term ROI.
What you'll gain by tuning in:
You'll learn that the most prominent driver of spiraling healthcare costs is a population that is becoming increasingly less healthy, with widespread, uncontrolled risk factors such as smoking, obesity, and high BMI.
You'll learn that producing healthier employees significantly reduces healthcare costs; however, these savings are not immediate but need to be tracked over the long term.
You'll gain an understanding of how an effective wellness program, such as Meritain Health's Healthy Merits, must be customizable to each employer's group size, industry, location and other factors. When it comes to wellness, one size does not fit all!
Call us today at 1.800.242.6226: Every day brings new opportunities to stop escalating healthcare costs. Through the Healthy Meritssm program, Meritain Health can customize a wellness program that meets the needs of your employee population. "I would encourage anyone who doesn't quite understand how to do this to call, to ask, to realize that there are some folks out there who don't just offer you the standard stuff. If you continue to do what you've always done, the results are expected to be basically the same -- I don't think anyone wants that. [At Meritain Health] we can do it better." - Dr. Larry Luter
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