Notes from the clinic.
Field reports on onsite care, self-funded benefits, and the math behind getting more from every healthcare dollar.
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Archer v. Legacy Clinics
If you run benefits at a company with 100 to 1,500 employees and you're researching onsite primary care, you're about to discover something the vendor brochures won't tell you: most of the biggest names in the onsite clinic industry weren't…
Read article →Biometric Screenings: The Most Underrated Line Item in Your Benefits Budget
If you're an HR or benefits leader, you've almost certainly seen biometric screenings on a vendor proposal at some point. Maybe you've offered them. Maybe you've quietly cut them when budgets tightened. Maybe they live in a folder somewhere…
Read article →For Twenty Years, Onsite Clinics Were a Benefit Only Giants Could Afford. That's Finally Over.
The HR director — let's call her Karen — had been trying to solve the same problem for six years.
Read article →Onsite Clinics: What They Actually Are, What They Cost, and When They Make Sense
For most of the last twenty years, onsite health clinics were a benefit reserved for very large employers. If you had ten thousand employees on a single campus, an onsite clinic made obvious sense — the math worked, the vendor list was shor…
Read article →Onsite vs. Near-Site Clinics: Why Location Matters More Than You Think
When employers start evaluating employer-sponsored healthcare, one of the first decisions on the table is also one of the most consequential: should the clinic be inside your building, or near it?
Read article →Self-Funded vs. Fully Insured Health Plans: A Practical Guide for Mid-Sized Employers
If you run benefits at a company between 100 and 1,000 employees, there's a question that quietly shapes almost every other decision you'll make about healthcare: are you fully insured, or are you self-funded?
Read article →The Day Maria Walked Into the Clinic for a Free Coffee
Maria almost didn't go.
Read article →The Diagnosis That Came Too Late: Why Early Intervention Is the Most Important Benefit You're Not Offering
He was 47. A father of three. A shift supervisor who hadn't missed a day of work in eleven years. The kind of employee every company wants — steady, reliable, the guy who showed up early and stayed late when the line was short-handed.
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