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Unlocking Employee Health and Cost Savings with Direct Primary Care

Written by Ashlie Dover | December 10, 2024

For employers, balancing wellness promotion with cost control has become a pressing challenge. Direct Primary Care (DPC) is emerging as a powerful solution that reduces overall healthcare spend and improves employee satisfaction. Hint Connect offers a simple, disruption-free way to enable employers of all sizes to offer a quality healthcare benefit everyone will love (and make your employer clients love you!). 

Define Your DPC Network with Ease

Hint Connect’s nationwide network of over 600 independent DPC providers allows advisors to implement a DPC benefit for employers with employees across diverse locations. To get started, Hint Connect will conduct a geoanalysis on a list of employee zip codes you provide to identify a network of DPC providers that best matches the employees’ locations. If additional providers are needed, Hint Connect can rapidly contract additional DPCs–we add about 20 new locations each month.

Educate and Engage Employees

A well-communicated benefit is more likely to be used and appreciated. In addition to encouraging DPC physicians to attend open enrollment meetings, Hint Connect offers employee education resources and support to ensure employees understand the advantages of DPC and how to make the most of this benefit. By acting as your partner and engaging employees from the start, Hint Connect helps drive higher utilization rates, allowing employers to fully realize the cost and health benefits of DPC.

Streamlined Benefit Management 

Managing healthcare benefits can be complex, but Hint Connect simplifies the process by handling enrollment, eligibility, and membership management. Through Eligibility AutoSync, Hint Connect automates processes such as payment handling and invoicing, freeing you to focus on core business priorities—we can work with any TPA your clients use. This end-to-end management makes offering DPC as a benefit not only cost-effective but also incredibly straightforward.

Employers Are Embracing DPC

Direct Primary Care brings significant savings and boosts employee satisfaction. A recent study revealed that companies offering DPC saw a 13% reduction in healthcare costs due to better health management and site of service delivery, and 80% of employees felt more positive toward their employer when given access to DPC. It’s no doubt that DPC holds the ability to reduce healthcare costs while fostering a more satisfied, loyal workforce.

Hint Connect provides brokers and benefits advisors with a streamlined, nationwide solution for bringing DPC to their employer clients. By simplifying access to quality care, educating employees, and handling benefit management, Hint Connect empowers brokers and advisors to offer a benefit that keeps employer healthcare costs down and employee satisfaction high. Ready for proof? Learn how the implementation of DPC in one particular employer’s health plan resulted in over seventy percent employee adoption. 

 

Ready to learn how Hint Connect can transform your approach to employee healthcare? Schedule a demo with our team.