Outcomes You Can Measure
In an era when budgets are more scrutinized than ever before, ARC provides you with outcome data related directly to your healthcare spending. With clear, complete and easy to understand outcomes data and reports you can make more informed strategic decisions to drive your company’s growth and profits.
ARC provides objective, customized patient and group outcome reports for every service in order to:
- Help you and your executive team make well-informed decisions
- Gain a better understanding of the overall health of your workforce
- Provide you with timely insight into potential risks before they arise
Managing Data to Gain a Competitive Advantage
We’ve been tracking outcomes for years including statistics on high quality of care and how many visits each patient needs to return to work safely — and why. At ARC we track the data and help you formulate solutions and strategies to decrease your risk.
Post Offer Employment Testing Data
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 1 in every 10 workers is not physically capable of performing the essential functions of their job safely. Can you afford to hire an employee who is at far greater risk of an injury that can drive up your workers’ comp or group health insurance costs?
If your company does not test you run the risk of hiring employees turned down by companies that do test.
ARC is saving companies millions through post offer employment testing, and we have the data to prove it. Through a detailed medical questionnaire, dynamic lifting test, job simulation and a thorough musculoskeletal examination, ARC will determine a baseline of function for each employee and identify pre-existing conditions. Companies use the baseline data to protect themselves against claims should workplace injuries arise. It’s data you can use to make decisions that can save your company significant money.
Outcomes Data for Therapy Patients
Outcomes data in the workers’ comp setting allows you to get past false claims of discounts and volume pricing to see the real numbers and the real results of therapy for patients.
Smart companies compare and contrast the savings they achieve by returning employees to work safely in fewer therapy visits by using ARC compared to other providers. For example, some competitors claim they give greater discounts than ARC and their cost per visit is lower than ours. What they don’t say is that their patients may require more visits to progress back to work safely than ARC patients. Why? One reason may be the superior qualifications of ARC therapists — most with graduate degrees and doctorates — all among the most highly regarded therapists in the country. It could also be our close relationships with referring physicians that often results in improved patient recovery results.
Regardless, with honest outcome reports, employers can see at a glance the benefit of directing care to ARC. Recovery times are almost always shorter and employees return to work at less overall cost to the employer.
Another demonstration of the value of ARC is to compare our outcomes for treatment of injuries to industry standards — Official Disability Guidelines (ODG). ODG benchmarks industry-wide data collected from over two million workers’ injuries and sets the standard for average number of visits needed to get a person safely back to work.
The bottom line is that ARC almost always beats the ODG standard number of visits estimated to return your employees to work safely.
ARC will provide you and your management team with outcome reports on your employees’ specific diagnoses, including co-morbidity factors and results including:
- Top Diagnoses.
- Total number of patients in each sample group.
- ODG “Best Practice” average number of visits.
- ARC average number of visits how many visits ARC took to return your employee safely to work.
- Average days in treatment.
- Average time between injury and treatment – ARC data collected from 12,000 workers’ comp patients shows that the longer the time between injury and treatment, the longer the treatment time needed.
- Average patient age – we demonstrate your patient trends and partner with you to find solutions.
- Co-morbidities – tracking co-morbidities shows you the direct effect one or more additional disorders may have on the injury. For example, a patient with osteoarthritis, may take longer to recover from a sprain or surgery. Likewise, research shows that smokers take longer to recover from surgery because less oxygen is delivered to injured areas. Less oxygen means slower recuperation. We track each patient’s specific co-morbidities as well as your group’s co-morbidities to give you a solid picture of your ongoing risks, including percentage of patients with more than one risk factor.
Other factors and cost drivers can impact outcomes (positively and negatively) including whether or not the employee has sought legal counsel, if English is a second language, previous workers’ comp history and whether or not the employee has been assigned a case manager.
Plus, we track data beyond ODG — patients’ functional status at discharge and repeat injuries. It’s information you need to make objective strategic decisions. With data from ARC you can stop saying, “I think” and start saying, “I know.”