The Benefit Company
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Hey, Michael Godwin here with the benefit company quick follow-up message
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on Direct Primary Care through near site and
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on-site clinics. I’ve posted a few videos on this topic this year and this
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is another in that series. If you want to go back and kind of get
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a refresher on that whole concept and model check out some
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of our prior videos. But today I want to revisit this from the standpoint
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of some results that we’ve seen from a client of ours that has been successfully
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successfully utilizing this approach for their employees. So
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we’re seeing great results for this client, which we
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think we could see for others out there as well. So this particular client was
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experiencing some of the same challenges that many employers face a large
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number of their members were not actively visiting
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with the physician, many were having
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to wait weeks in advance to get appointments and waiting
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a long time in the office to see Physicians
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and we’re having some experiencing some difficulties and from a
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convenience standpoint there and also with our data
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from the self-funded plan was showing that many of these employees were
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being referred out to high-cost specialist for Unnecessary care
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and testing and so we wanted to
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Some efficiency there. So we’ve put in place this
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near site model where they’ve contracted with a Healthcare company
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to open up a clinic near their office. So employees
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can go there very conveniently from the
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location where they work and sit down with a physician for
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30 to 60 Minutes unlike the typical 12 to 15 minute
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visit and they’re able to get much better care from their physician so quickly,
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I’ll tell you some results we’ve seen so far there’s a
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direct savings a direct Roi of
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1.5 to 1 on the care that’s administered in that
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clinic. So that just simply means the care that’s
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being administered. There is much more efficiently priced than
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it would be out in the marketplace now indirectly
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what we’ve seen as a result
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as well. I mentioned referrals out to high-cost specialist
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Physicians earlier in this conversation. So we’ve
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seen a dramatic reduction in those referrals out
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to Specialists. We’re seeing a referral rate within the clinic of 1.95% And
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typically you see 25% the
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market so that’s led to some Downstream.
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Savings of over $70,000 thus far and also
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led to a better patient experience for the employees. I’m
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also as far as productivity is concerned again, these folks
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are able to go to a facility that’s
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very close to their office, which is much more convenient. They’re able
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to get in and out very quickly able to
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schedule follow-up appointments very quickly unlike they would on sort
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of the normal physician market. So it’s led to significant savings
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for a productivity standpoint.
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And then lastly what I would say is far as the experience for the
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employees, one of the great things about these clinics is that much of
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the care that we all need on a daily basis sort of
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the sort of traditional care can be administered through these clinics.
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We had one particular patient that was complaining of
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some pain in their back turns out
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they had a lesion that the physician in the
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clinic located in that initial visit. They were able
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to remove the lesion send it off for testing to
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lab fortunately it was benign. But all of
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that was done inside this Physician’s office
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inside the clinic so saved on
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cost obviously not having to sort of be referred out
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to a high-cost specialist from a convenience standpoint. It
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was a much better patient experience for the employee and so
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we highly encourage employers to look into this. There’s great opportunity
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out there. And again, you don’t have to be a massive employer to
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take advantage of this particular client is not thousands of
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employees. And so these clinics are typically set up on a shared basis
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with other employers. So there’s
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opportunity out there for mid-sized Employers in the Atlanta area. Thanks
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for listening. Take care.