Without knowing it, many Americans employees with wellness benefits have less than they should when it comes to the quality and quantity of their benefits.
Every job has its benefits. And with wellness programs growing in popularity as part of a complete benefit package offering, it’s more important than ever to understand precisely what services to include as part of your onsite wellness program.
Comparing apples to apples, it becomes clear that not every program offers the same services. There is a huge degree of difference in what’s offered, and how relevant the data being given in the wellness program actually is.
Knowledge of the Product
Chad Heirholzer is a Star Wellness USA® Franchisee from San Antonio, Texas. Before joining the company, he worked for the City of Richardson, Texas as a director of employee wellness initiatives. Having years of experience implementing wellness programs, he knew what makes up the differences between a quality program, and a poor one.
However, once he became a client of Star Wellness, he immediately saw the difference between other vendors from other programs he’d previously implemented.
“It was refreshing communicating with Star Wellness and learning how their services could combat expenses,” he said.
“Their overall knowledge and services were just exceptional. They made you feel comfortable with in-depth knowledge of the wellness initiatives and their long-term forecast of the expenses of the health plan.”
Wellness Program Leadership Development
Assisting the health plan manager (or managers) involved with a new initiative is a crucial part of any wellness program’s success. They need training to interpret the most-effective data, and how to customize services to effectively manage the health plan.
“It’s one thing to have onsite wellness services, and to increase employee participation, it’s another thing to have great data collection to help the manager involved effectively understand the plan with fresh tools and data to establish a forecast of the future expenses in the health plan,” says Heirholzer.
Quality and Quantity
On the scale of quality and quantity of health tests and data research, Star Wellness is at the top. We offer services that are not typically included in the average wellness program. And the services that are offered are proven to be huge cost savers for the companies who implement them.
“It allowed our employee wellness program to go above and beyond. To go beyond the normal spectrum of services, to help really target and find these people with unknown diseases, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease,” Heirlozer says.
“Many people, their doctors won’t typically send them in for a vascular screening. Their doctors usually don’t prescribe for them what we consider a normal screening.”
Star Wellness provides an affordable way to get crucial baseline tests and screenings, plus a whole array of extras. These include, vascular screenings, and blood chemistry analysis’ with detailed reporting.
Many employees find out they have a condition during these screenings. Of these previously unknown conditions, Diabetes is probably the most common, followed by others like, cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol, thyroid disease, and cancer. For many people, they simply never had the opportunity to become aware of their conditions because of minimal screening. These minimal wellness benefits can quite literally keep a person from knowing they have a life-threatening disease.
“The price is close to the same as a baseline screening, but they got a lot more for the money.” says Heirlozer.
