Reducing Company Health Cost
The purpose for this blog is so you can preview each chapter of our new book “Reduce Company Health Cost.” Your comments and ideas for improvement on the content and layout will be deeply appreciated.
We will post revisions to the chapters as they become available. And for those who post comments on the book we will email them a final copy for free.
The purpose of this book is to demystify health care for the business owner, and also show how to implement concrete strategies for monitoring and managing health care costs. As a result, the reader will be better equipped to reduce health care costs for his or her business.
Many in this industry say that “claims are claims.” In other words, claims are going to happen and there is not a thing that you can do about it. The purpose of this paper is to show that there is something that the business owner can do to reduce the high cost of claims.
There are two parts to this book. Part I gives the landscape of the root causes of major areas of cost in the U.S. today. Part II provides the dashboard for getting control of your costs as well as an outline of the players and the questions to ask.
This book will also act as a guide for the employee to ensure that they get the best quality health care from their plan.
Use this material to discover new ways to get control of your company health spend, and also reduce current costs.
Sincerely,
Don, Karen & Keith
www.healthservicereview.com
The thoughts and ideas in the book are well laid out and have a good flow. Concepts are presented succinctly and supported with easy to understand illustrations. The entire presentation would be enhanced with a higher level of editorial rigor (using parallel construction, complete sentences, and more effective verbs) and proofreading (eliminating sentence fragments, missing or duplicated words, etc.)
I didn’t see much discussion on other variables that might have an impact on pmpm such as plan design changes, family size, and catastrophic claims. Granted I did not spend a great deal of time so it could be there and I may have missed it.
Thanks Jon,
Your comments and ideas for improvement are greatly appreciated. This is the first draft and we will proof read again to do the clean up that you suggested. Thanks for catching them and pointing that out.
We will also take a look at the other variables that you suggested and evaluate how best to incorporate them without adding complexity for the non-technical reader.
Once again, your input is greatly valued.
Regards,
Keith Center