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The company that solved health care : how Serigraph dramatically reduced skyrocketing costs while providing better care, and how every company can do the same / John Torinus, Jr.

by Torinus, John, Jr.

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Dallas : BenBella Books, c2010.

Health care reform -- United States.

9781935618195 (alk. paper) :

1935618199 (alk. paper)

xiv, 210 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Introduction real reform of health care still to come -- Rampant health costs can be controlled -- Get employees' heads in the game -- Utilization drops sharply with individual responsibility -- Piercing the fog of medical pricing and promoting transparency -- Motivate employees to seek centers of value -- The missing link: top management as change agents -- Beer, brats, butterfat: health, lifestyle can be managed -- Primacy of primary care delivers big savings -- Quality ratings elusive, but essential -- To reform: educate, communicate, hyper-communicate -- Silver bullet for better value: lean disciplines that transform -- Generics, loss leaders provide leverage on drug costs -- Better model for desperate small companies -- Private sector reforms trump government efforts.

Explains how employers can take control of the increasing burden of health care costs, using the approach taken by Serigraph, a company that focused on consumer responsibility, primary care, and centers of value, as a model for improving health care while lowering the cost.

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