Here’s a problem the big national clinic operators can’t solve: a mid-sized manufacturer with plants in two different states, neither one large enough — on its own — to justify a full-time, five-day onsite clinic. One small site is already below their threshold. Two small sites in two states? Not a conversation they’ll have.
It’s exactly the conversation Archer is built for. This employer put a shared, part-time clinic in each plant, sized to that location’s headcount. Six months in, both are working.
What two clinics delivered in six months
Combined across both states:
- 51 employees seen across 130 encounters — and $18,400 of primary care delivered at $0 to the self-funded plan. Priced as urgent-care visits, the same care would have run roughly $24,000.
- 22 chronic conditions caught and brought under management across 47 member-condition flags — about $919,000 in 10-year cost exposure managed early, before it turns into the heart attacks and dialysis that wreck a self-funded plan.
Per site, the model flexes to the population:
- Plant A: 75 encounters, 28 employees, $13,000 of care at $0 to the plan — and a standout 57% return rate (more than half of everyone who came once came back).
- Plant B: 55 encounters, 23 employees, $5,430 of care at $0 — a newer site, ramping.
Every figure is the actual care delivered, valued at what the plan would have paid, reconciled against what it actually paid: nothing.
The number that says it’s working: 57%
A first visit is curiosity; a second is trust. At the lead site, 57% of employees who used the clinic came back — an unusually strong early return rate that says the care became people’s real front door, not a one-time novelty. That’s the leading indicator that the savings compound instead of fading.
Why multi-site is the harder flex — and the bigger proof
Standing up real primary care at one small location is already something the giants won’t do. Doing it at two, in different states, with consistent care and one set of numbers the employer can see across both — that’s the part of the model that scales. Same shared, part-time staffing; same low-cost build-out; same calculated reporting, plant by plant.
How we know it’s real
Every number is calculated from this employer’s own encounters and clinical data — not estimated from a book of business — and reconciled against actual claims. Through Archer Strata, the employer and their broker watch both sites build in near real time, not in a quarterly deck. The methodology is in the cost-redirection guide.
Calculated from employer encounter and clinical data; published anonymized. If you run benefits for a 100-to-1,000-employee company — one site or several — and want this modeled against your actual claims, start here.