Employer Benefits:

Offering this service to your employees can:

• Reduce healthcare costs through better and proper care
• Improve employee morale
• Give value through helping ill employees return to work faster
• Cut presenteeism by creating a healthier and more productive workplace

Provide a positive impact on experience rating

Value Proposition:

In a time of escalating health insurance costs paired with difficult economic times, can you afford to throw away money on ineffective or inappropriate medical care for your employees? According to research by expert physicians:

• 1 in 5 employees may be misdiagnosed
• 60% of employees may be getting the wrong treatment
• 30% of every dollar spent on health care is being wasted on misdiagnosis and misguided care

Excess and inappropriate care is a key target of CC3. New England Journal of Medicine shows that a shared decision making approach to health care had a 10.1% reduction in annual surgeries and hospital admissions. This translates into an ROI of over 3:1 when applying the same methodology to the ConnectCare3 community.

• CC3 Thyroid patient had savings of over $90,000 with Nurse Advocate Intervention
• CC3 Prostate patient had savings of over $120,000 with proper approach and avoided radiation

ConnectCare3 has developed a service that provides personal, confidential care management for your employees to help them avoid becoming one of these dismal statistics. By avoiding health care mistakes, employees will be able to return to work quicker and avoid long term disability.

• Free to employee and covered dependents  (serving 50,000+)
• Cost per employee is less than 1% of healthcare costs
• Complements and maximizes current health plan
• Direct bottom line savings relationship for self-funded plans
• Lower claims and future premiums through better care and patient advocacy
• Access to Wellness programs, impacting overall community health and claims

Presenteeism:

Presenteeism doesn’t refer to a loss of productivity due to employees pretending to be ill to avoid work duties or goofing off on the job by surfing the internet. Rather, it refers to a loss of productivity due to symptoms of a real health problem such as migraines, allergies, depression, etc. Presenteeism is a growing problem that is costing employers as much as $150 billion a year nationwide. In fact, it is estimated that presenteeism is far more costly than illness-related absenteeism or disability. The most common factors causing presenteeism are:

• Misdiagnosis of an illness
• Mistreatment of a chronic illness
• Employee inability to understand or follow treatment prescribed for their illness

ConnectCare3 can directly impact presenteeism by providing the following services:

• Wellness education to cut down on lifestyle related chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and depression.
• Assist employees struggling with illness in obtaining a second opinion
• Educating ill employees about their diagnosis and treatment options
• Provide complex Care Management between multiple physicians and facilities
• Identify social services to meet non-health related needs associated with illness

Don’t let presenteeism bog down your business. Take steps today to help your employees live healthier, more productive lives.

Financial Impact:

Increasingly, scientific studies are supporting the contention that the ConnectCare3 strategy both improves patient outcomes and saves money for the sponsoring employer with a positive return on investment. One such study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that a shared decision making approach to health care (like ConnectCare3) led to:

• 10.1% annual reduction in hospital admissions
• 9.8% annual reduction in inpatient and outpatient surgeries
• 11.5% annual reduction in hospitalization for patients facing significant medical decisions

The ConnectCare3 community of members has an ROI of over 3.3:1 in 2010 when applying the same methodology. ConnectCare3 targets excess and inappropriate care while getting the best available care for patients. Since our inception, ConnectCare3 has helped hundreds of employees. Two examples of patients that avoided unnecessary expense are:

• A patient with thyroid cancer avoided unnecessary radiation treatment and avoided over $90,000 in expenses
• A patient with prostate cancer chose an alternative treatment option that avoided radiation and over $120,000 in expenses.

Eliminating excess or inappropriate treatments has immediate benefits for self-insured companies and long term benefits for companies with a typical full-insured medical plan. No matter what type of plan you have, the benefits of avoiding unnecessary or ineffective treatment are clear. Employees will be able to return to work quicker and your long-term health insurance costs will be controlled.

Corporate Plan - Employee Benefits:

Everyone deserves access to the best health care. Unfortunately, without the right resources it can be difficult to determine what the best health care actually is. Statistics show that the current health care system is not as effective as it should be. At ConnectCare3, our staff is relentless in helping patients get the right diagnosis and the best treatments available from expert physicians and treatment facilities. Our service does not replace health insurance; it simply complements insurance through access and education. All services provided by ConnectCare3 are:

• Free to the Employee
• Confidential and HIPAA Compliant
• Personalized
• Independent and Unbiased

Each employee that chooses to utilize the service will have access to:

• Education about their diagnosis and treatment options
• Face-to-Face Nurse Interaction – Our nurse will accompany them to physician and facility appointments by request
• Help obtaining a second opinion
• Wellness services designed to prevent lifestyle related chronic conditions
• Help identifying social services to meet non-health related needs associated with illness

 

When an employee is overwhelmed by the options, medical terms and the complex health care system itself, ConnectCare3 is the voice of calm and understanding that helps clear the confusion. Our goal is to assist patients so they can move forward with the process of healing.

 

Statistics:
Are you willing to risk your health on statistics like these? Expert physicians have found that:

• As many as 1 in 5 patients may be misdiagnosed
• As many as 60% of patients may be getting the wrong treatment
• Nearly 70% of patients do not understand their diagnosis
• Up to 30% of every dollar spent on healthcare in America is being wasted on misdiagnosis and misguided care.

ConnectCare3 has already helped hundreds of patients to avoid unnecessary and inappropriate care. Two examples of the people we have helped are:

• A patient with thyroid cancer avoided unnecessary radiation treatment that would have isolated her from her family and friends for weeks and caused her diminished quality of life. Click Here for the full story!
• A patient with prostate cancer avoided an unnecessary surgery that was scheduled for the same day his wife called us. Thus he eliminated huge expenses and potential lifelong complications from the risks of surgery.

Education:
Knowledge is power! ConnectCare3 empowers patients with the knowledge needed to make informed health care decisions. The ConnectCare3 staff will educate you about:

• How your insurance works
  • In-Network Providers
  • In-Network Facilities
  • Pre-Authorization
  • Claims
• Your diagnosis
• Physicians and Facilities that specialize in your condition
• Cutting edge treatment options
• And more!

The ultimate decision is yours, but ConnectCare3 ensures that you have a complete picture of your options so that you are better able to find the option that is best for you.

Value of a Second Opinion:
If there was a problem with the motor in your high performance European sports car, would you take your car to just any mechanic to get it fixed? Of course not! You would do research on mechanics to find one that specializes in high performance vehicles, preferably with expertise in fixing motors.

When it comes to your health, ConnectCare3 knows that the same holds true. There is value in going to a specialist with expertise in treating a specific medical condition whether it is cancer, heart disease or any number of complex illnesses. ConnectCare3 identifies the expert physicians and facilities that specialize in your illness so that you can have the assurance that you are getting the best available care.