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IMC Announces Hiring of Tom Neville to the Position of Senior Vice President, Operations
Tom Neville has joined IMC HealthCare, Inc. (IMC) — a leading provider of on-site health centers and on-site wellness centers for large and mid-sized, self-insured companies — in the newly designed role of Senior Vice President of Operations. IMC created Tom’s role to address increasing demands from companies seeking the newest, most convenient and cost-effective on-site healthcare delivery models. As a national provider, IMC offers primary care, urgent care, occupational health, wellness and preventive care and pharmaceutical services to clients’ employees, dependents and retirees.
“Tom brings a wealth of healthcare management and industry-specific experience to our team,” says Todd Keller, CEO of IMC. “And he brings a new level of expertise and well-established industry relationships to help IMC deliver the highest-quality health and wellness experiences to our patients, while using a cost-effective, convenient delivery system for our clients,” adds Terry L. MacMath, MD, Chief Medical Officer.
Company Clinics Cut Health Costs
Frustrated by runaway health costs, the nation’s largest employers are moving rapidly to open more primary care medical centers in their offices and factories as a way to offer convenient service and free or low-cost health care.
Within the last two years, companies including Toyota, Sprint Nextel, Florida Power and Light, Credit Suisse and Pepsi Bottling Group have opened or expanded on-site clinics. And many employers are adding or planning to add even more clinics, which were experimented with about 30 years ago but fell out of favor amid questions about their cost-effectiveness.
Today a new wave of clinics is opening, driven largely by a motive that was less of a factor in the past: employers’ desires to reduce their health insurance premiums by taking care of workers before they need to see outside doctors. More than 100 of the nation’s 1,000 largest employers now offer on-site primary care or preventive health services — a number forecast to exceed 250 by the end of the year, according to David Beech, a health benefits consultant.
Corporate America’s new in-house medical offices go well beyond traditional occupational health clinics that hundreds of factories have long maintained for job-related injuries and worker’s compensation cases. Employees can now stop by for check-ups, allergy and flu shots, pregnancy tests or routine monitoring for chronic diseases like diabetes and asthma.
When prescription drugs are required, some employers arrange for the pills to be delivered the next day at the office or plant, while others even maintain fully stocked pharmacies.
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