Health Access Solution is designed to keep you and your family healthy, but what’s really unique is how it also works for the businesses who offer the Health Access Benefit to their employees!
Recently, Elissa English of Northern Hospitality Group in Portland, Maine, shared their success story with MaineBiz saying, “Our employees are better cared for and happier with their care, they have more choices, and we’ve saved our company a lot of money.”
She explained to the magazine how Health Access Solutions empowered their employees to have better health care at lower costs:
It seems like every year, premiums go up, benefits go down, and the cycle repeats. After becoming exhausted by this annual review, we began looking for a different model of providing care for our employees. And we found it . . . Now, we offer our employees a variety of options that best cater to their individual needs.
Most of our employees in Greater Portland have opted into the emerging model that combines [the] Health Access Benefit with Medical Cost Sharing and Direct Primary Care. With this model, the company pays for the associate’s memberships directly, via a monthly subscription, and our people have a comprehensive care package to meet all of their needs from preventative to sick to catastrophic.
What worked for this business?
First, Elissa highlights how much value and genuine care their people have gained from their new direct primary care providers:
Direct primary care has been the most utilized from what we have witnessed since enrolling. The doctors we have contracts with . . . are caring and focus on the well-being of our individual employees, regardless of the time of day. Office visits are far longer than the usual 10 minutes and free for our employees. It’s so rewarding to hear the stories about the personal relationships they’ve built with their doctors, who are providing them with such individualized care. (emphasis added)
Second, Elissa says that this high-quality health care is actually saving money for their employees and ultimately for their business:
Because we made these changes with our health benefits, our company has also saved a lot of money. The first year, when faced with a 34% increase in group insurance premiums, we actually ended up reducing our company’s healthcare spend by 24%.
What’s even more exciting for us is that our associates have benefited tremendously from those savings. For the individual [Health Access Benefit], they are paying zero dollars out of their paychecks, which is such an amazing benefit to be able to provide. (emphasis added)
Share your success story!
We really believe that high-quality, personalized care that doesn’t cost a fortune is the future of health care, and we are honored to help businesses like Northern Hospitality Group create this future for their employees. If you—or your business!—have also had a great experience with your direct primary care provider, then we want to hear your story!
Sharing your story with us is easy and takes less than 5 minutes. Learn more here.