New research on workplace clinics observes that the clinics may have a limited impact on direct health costs, but their presence offers employers more control over how health care is delivered.
“While well-designed, well-implemented workplace clinics are likely to achieve positive returns over the long term, expecting clinics to be a game changer in bending the overall health care cost curve may be unrealistic,” says Ha T. Tu, an senior researcher at the Center for Studying Health System Change and co-author of the study “Workplace Clinics: A Sign of Growing Employer Interest in Wellness.”
