Employers

FACTS:

❱ Unhealthy employees cost business $153 billion in lost productivity.

❱ The national cost of diabetes in the U.S. in 2007 exceeds $174 billion. This estimate includes $116 billion in excess medical expenditures attributed to diabetes, as well as $58 billion in reduced national productivity per year.

❱ The CDC estimates $3 of every $4 an employer spends on health costs are allocated towards treating chronic conditions, like hypertension, obesity, diabetes, asthma, and depression. The top 10 most costly conditions, in decreasing order of cost, are cardiovascular disease, smoking related diseases, alcohol related diseases, diabetes, Alzheimers, cancer, obesity, arthritis, asthma and stroke.

❱ The estimated cost for patients experiencing a treatment failure, new medication problem or both are estimated to be $528 billion per year.

❱ Pain costs an estimated $560 billion to $635 billion annually in lost workdays, medical expenses, and other benefit costs.

❱ Patient with diabetes medical expenditures that are 2.3 times higher than the expenditure would be in the absence of diabetes. Approximately $1 in $10 health care dollars is attributed to diabetes. Indirect costs include increased factors such as absenteeism, reduced productivity, and lost productive capacity due to early mortality.

❱ According to a recent Gallup poll, only 13.9% employees (or 1 in 7 people) is of normal weight with no chronic health conditions. The employee BMI and the number of sick days have a direct relationship. A normal weight employee takes an average of 0.34 sick days per month. An overweight employee with less than 2 chronic conditions takes 1.08 sick days per month. An overweight employee with more than 2 chronic conditions takes 3 sick days per month or 42 per year.

❱ In the US, about 111 million (46%) of the US adult have high blood pressure per American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association. Hypertension can lead to stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), or peripheral arterial diseases, chronic kidney disease (CKD) or retinopathy.

CLINICAL

❱ Reduce and optimize medication therapy.

❱ Increase compliance and adherence with medication regimen.

❱ Improve quality of life.

❱ Improve clinical outcome of disease states.

❱ Employ self-management.

ECONOMIC

❱ Decrease morbidity, mortality and cost burdens that result from inadequate management of chronic disease states.

❱ Decrease absenteeism, improve productivity.

❱ Reduce drug costs.

Employers

EFFCIENCY

❱ Optimize medication therapy through comprehensive and coordinated approach.

❱ Improve record keeping and communication; Increase accountability.

❱ Provide Personal Medication Record and Medication Action Plan.

❱ Resolve and prevent medication related problem.

❱ Avoid adverse outcomes.

❱ Avoid medication error.

SAFETY

Our board Certified Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners in collaboration with medical providers

Perform comprehensive medication therapy management and a systematic approach to optimize patient outcomes and reduce costs.
Evaluate and manage chronic disease states based on clinical practice guidelines.
Recommend and individualize disease state goals based on employee’s need.
Will employ motivational techniques to tailor programs for smoking cessation, lifestyle and behavior changes, and educating groups about disease risk reduction.
Formulate patient‐centered treatment plans for complex patients and self-engagement.

Our Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners will address Medication Therapy Management (MTM) in a compassionate, comprehensive and integrative manner utilizing a collaborative and coordinated approach. Emphasis is placed on the delivery of rational drug therapy, a comprehensive review of herbal products and supplements patient is on, appropriate cost avoidance, decreased medical risk associated with medication therapy and promotion of health and wellness.

Be Physically active for at least 30 minutes/5-days a week.

Maintain a healthy weight and waist size.