Nov 27
A New Niche in the Health Care Market
With corporations creating on-site health clinics in an attempt to stem rising costs in health care for their employees and themselves, a new niche is developing: on-site health clinic staff providers.
CHD Meridian in Pennsylvania is one such company. Their client-base includes more than 100 corporations, and they run more than 200 health clinics. Dixon Thayer is the CEO of CHD Meridian. Some clinics are staffed by nurse practitioners; others have family physicians. He says they can even provide minor dental care, even basic surgeries like stitches.
“We’re not there to replace the hospitals. We’re not there to replace the specialists. We’re actually there to help the employee get the best care they can,” says Thayer.
Larger corporations with more than 1000 employees can expect to save a great deal. Smaller corporations who invest in conjunction with other small businesses in the same office park or area could reap the benefits as well.
Cigna, the health insurance company, has an on-site health clinic and they saved more than $1.4 million in employee work time alone. With savings like that available, the new niche in health care provided by on-site clinic staffers like CHD Meridian are more and more in demand.
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November 28th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
This is exactly the kind of forward-thinking strategy which will save companies vast resources on their health insurance, and lead to improved health care access for their companies, besides! Having a physician on staff can\’t be cheap, but it\’s far less expensive than the ever-rising alternatives…
Jerry
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