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Menu Care can help your company reduce costs in two very important ways...
- Healthcare costs: Visits to MenuCare are usually much less expensive that a visit to the Dr.’s office or an emergency room.
- Reducing Employee Absenteeism: Because your employees can visit a MenuCare location without an appointment and after normal business hours, we can help you reduce absenteeism due to minor illnesses. In addition, MenuCare visits generally take 30 minutes or less allowing your employees to return to work sooner if they do need to visit during normal business hours.
The author’s of a recent Wall Street Journal Article tout the benefits of retail health clinics to employers:
90% of retail clinic visits are for 10 common complaints that constitute 18% of all visits to primary care doctors and 12% of visits to emergency rooms. So, the more employees visit retail clinics for these common problems, the more money companies will save.
Plus, retail clinics would help reduce the absenteeism related to the time it normally takes to schedule an appointment, see a doctor and fill a prescription. Retail clinics have made convenience a key part of their sales pitch by offering walk-in, no-wait visits in places where people already shop.
How to encourage employees to visit these clinics? Companies should demand coverage of retail clinic visits from their health plans and offer discounts to employees. In states where regulations bar nurses from operating health clinics without doctors, companies should lobby to reverse these restrictions.
