Helping Employees Make Better Healthcare Decisions with Tom Vertich

Employees are getting more health-aware and are placing greater demand on their employers for better healthcare packages. However, meeting the divergent health needs of your employers goes beyond changing your benefit plans to rethinking your approach to employee health and getting innovative with your health solutions.  

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In this episode of the Edelheit Experience, Tom Vertich, one of the leading experts in the Benefits space, discusses innovative approaches to employee benefits and optimizing healthcare initiatives for your employees. Tom, who is the Director of Total Rewards at Team Car Care, discusses point solutions he is initiating in the organization, and how effective communication of these benefits can drive engagement and positive healthcare outcomes.  

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Tom has years of experience as an HR benefits professional and a benefits broker/consultant, having worked for three Fortune 500 companies. Tom shares insights into navigating market practices and vendor capacities to plan, design, and implement leading-edge benefit strategies that control cost and enhance the member experience.

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“Participation does not mean engagement”  

“If you skip oil changes for your car, bad things will happen; same way if you skip benefits care, leave gaps in care, particularly in diabetes, you open yourself to bad health outcomes down the road”  

“You need to understand what success looks like first and know what the building blocks are to determine if your benefit plans are succeeding”

“Sometimes you find that a doctor who might get rated as low cost does not necessarily have the lowest fees; they might be avoiding needless tests and getting the person better on fewer visits”

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