{"product_id":"cracking-health-costs-tom-emerick-9781118636480","title":"Cracking Health Costs: How to Cut Your Company's Costs and Provide Employees Better Care","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCracking Health Costs\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the best ways for companies and small businesses to fight back, right now, against rising health care costs. This book proposes multiple, practical steps that you can take to control costs and increase the effectiveness of the health benefit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book is all about rolling back health care costs to save companies and employees money. Working hand-in-hand with their employees, businesses need to ensure that, whenever feasible, employees with the most expensive diagnoses get optimal treatment at hospitals not practicing \"volume-driven\" medicine for higher profits. Less than 10% of employees incur 80% of costs. About 20% of patients have been completely misdiagnosed, while many others are simply the victims of surgeons who are either practicing bad medicine or overtreating for profit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor example, some companies, such as Walmart and Lowe's, are turning to the \"Centers of Excellence\" approach author Tom Emerick helped to pioneer while running benefits for Walmart. By determining which hospitals are adopting the highest standards of care, benefits managers can reduce the number of unnecessary high-cost surgeries and improve employees' overall health. The solution-based approach offered by the book is unique, because it can be implemented by businesses today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Emerick, Al Lewis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1118636481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781118636480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Tom Emerick","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43924132561151,"sku":"9781118636480","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_48a4bf89-8d2d-4902-a73b-c0ac9fecd969.jpg?v=1681068669","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cracking-health-costs-tom-emerick-9781118636480","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}