Ten Ways to Use CareLink to Enhance Your Benefits

Future health plan cost containment won't come from
PPO discounts and traditional managed care. Employers must use innovative approaches to deal with the 5-10% of employees that account for 65-75% of health care costs. Carelink can help.

"CareLink education and screening helps our employees take more responsibility for their own health and health care costs."

Ten Ways to Use a CareLink Nurse
to Enhance Your Benefits

1. Direct nursing care in the home or at the worksite, cost effectively priced and delivered to meet your employees' specific health care needs.

2. Direct nursing care delivered in conjunction with case management from your medical management supplier. Telephonic case management is greatly enhanced when a locally-based nurse can interact face to face with the patient and providers.

3. Care coordination for large acute cases. CareLink can help coordinate treatment plans among mulitiple providers, sort out treatment options with the patient and family, and help the health care system work as effectively as possible.

4. Care coordination for chronic cases. For most health plans, the biggest source of claims is individuals with chronic conditions such as hypertension and diabetes. CareLink nurses can help individuals manage those diseases to minimize use of expensive hospital services.

5. General health education and screenings, conducted on-site in groups or one-on-one will help keep healthy people healthy and motivate others to address and manage their disease risk factors.

6. Disease-specific programs can address areas you want to focus attention on.

7. Surgery Support program is a pre-surgery education and post-surgery follow-up program to help your employees get back to work as quickly as possible.

8. Healthy Start program helps promote good pre-natal care and early problem intervention for your pregnant employees or spouses.

9. Elderly parent support is a CareLink service your employees should know about, to relieve the stress and loss of productivity that occurs when middle-aged employees are concerned about their elderly parents' health and well-being.

10. Expert nursing support of your specific health management initiatives. CareLink nurses can provide nursing support of your company's benefit enhancement and benefit cost containment strategy.

Working with a CareLink nurse is like having a nurse on your benefits management team. For more information, call CareLink at 217-222-8480