Three Simple Tips To Save Health Costs

Tip 1 - Prevention

Did you know that up to 30 illnesses can be diagnosed by a routine eye exam?

Included are heart diseases, diabetes and even cancer. Since early intervention is key to successful treatments of these illnesses, early detection has a major impact on the quality of life of and costs for the patient.

Ensure that your employees understand the value of the vision plan for their health and make use of the annual exams.

Extra Tip - Offer the annual vision exam without additional costs.

Tip 2 - Communication

When employees do not grasp how their health plans work, they are not used optimally. Simple support tools are needed.

Use a single platform for all your plans. There, your employees can not just find terminology explanations, but also how to apply their respective plans correctly. All commincation regarding employee health plans should be communicated throught this platform, as well.

Tip 3 - Make Prices Visible

Employees are too often unaware about the existence of substantial cost differences. Even within networks, differences with a factor of 6 are no rarity. Due to high deductibles within plans, employees often pay for entire procedures themselves.

If employees are not aware of cost differences between an emergency room and urgent care visit, they spend $1,000 or more in the ER, when they could have spent $150 at urgent care.

Therefore, employees informing themselves about pricing aherad of time should become the norm. This can also be integrated into the existing platform.