Employers Key to Good Quality Health Care
As the largest purchaser of health care in America, private employers are footing the bill for poor-quality care and must demand better quality.
High-quality care makes better and more efficient use of employers’ health care dollars. Improving the health care delivery systems’ outcomes now creates an opportunity to reduce premiums in the future.
The P² Collaborative knows that we need businesses — the people who purchase health care — to help create a healthier and more productive workforce, and increase accountability for the delivery, purchasing and consumption of health care.
Employers pay a price for poor-quality care. About six in 10 Americans get health insurance through employers, and employers pay for nearly three-quarters of premiums. At the same time, poor quality costs a typical employer between $1,900 and $2,250 per employee every year¹. A staggering 30 percent of U.S. health care spending—$700 billion—is the result of poor quality care, chiefly overuse, misuse and waste.
Helping employees manage their health is a sound investment in human capital. Health promotion and disease management can lift the quality of the workforce. Put simply, employees who feel good work better. Employees who are well are more likely to show up than employees who are sick—and healthy employees perform better on the job.
Join the P² Collaborative and put the business of healthcare in the hands of business.
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¹Reducing the Cost of Poor-Quality Health Care Through Responsible Purchasing Leadership. Chicago: Midwest Business Group on Health, 2003. (No authors given.)
High-quality care makes better and more efficient use of employers’ health care dollars. Improving the health care delivery systems’ outcomes now creates an opportunity to reduce premiums in the future.
The P² Collaborative knows that we need businesses — the people who purchase health care — to help create a healthier and more productive workforce, and increase accountability for the delivery, purchasing and consumption of health care.
Employers pay a price for poor-quality care. About six in 10 Americans get health insurance through employers, and employers pay for nearly three-quarters of premiums. At the same time, poor quality costs a typical employer between $1,900 and $2,250 per employee every year¹. A staggering 30 percent of U.S. health care spending—$700 billion—is the result of poor quality care, chiefly overuse, misuse and waste.
Helping employees manage their health is a sound investment in human capital. Health promotion and disease management can lift the quality of the workforce. Put simply, employees who feel good work better. Employees who are well are more likely to show up than employees who are sick—and healthy employees perform better on the job.
Join the P² Collaborative and put the business of healthcare in the hands of business.
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¹Reducing the Cost of Poor-Quality Health Care Through Responsible Purchasing Leadership. Chicago: Midwest Business Group on Health, 2003. (No authors given.)