Prevention Makes Good Business Sense

Forward-thinking employers know that providing 100% preventive coverage to their employees is cost-effective. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, all non-grandfathered employer health plans — and eventually all health plans — must cover certain preventive services at no cost to their employees. However, to gain the full value of prevention benefits, employees and other beneficiaries must use them. Employers can increase the uptake of preventive services by creating evidence-based prevention and wellness programs and effectively communicating benefits.

This website, based on A Purchaser's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, provides employers with:

• Updated U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) preventive service recommendations
• Solutions and tools to track current preventive service usage
• Cost and value data on each clinical preventive service

Through preventive services, employers can begin to address the significant costs of preventable conditions, which include direct medical and pharmaceutical costs, lost productivity, short- and long-term disability, absenteeism and turnover.

Click here for a walkthrough Adobe Presenter presentation on the Preventive Services website.

This website was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of a cooperative agreement.