The Prevention Perspective
Research and insights to help benefits leaders build workforces that stay well
The CFO case for prevention: how one metric tells the whole story
Medical trend—the year-over-year change in per-employee healthcare costs—is the single metric that determines whether your benefits program is becoming more or less expensive over time. For a CFO, it’s a cost trajectory strategy that reshapes the conversation about preventive care.
The Executive Take: Greg Mansur, CEO
Every year, the same renewal conversation: “Healthcare costs are up 5–8%. Here’s what we’re doing to manage it.”
Plan design tweaks. Network renegotiations. Pharmacy carve-outs. All reactive. All managing costs after they’re incurred. But what if you could change the trajectory instead of just absorbing it?
The CFO case for prevention: how one metric tells the whole story
Medical trend—the year-over-year change in per-employee healthcare costs—is the single metric that determines whether your benefits program is becoming more or less expensive over time. For a CFO, it’s a cost trajectory strategy that reshapes the conversation about preventive care.
Are you overlooking a costly patient experience problem in your primary care benefits?
With primary care practices receiving an average NPS of -1.2, employers have good reason to believe their people are having poor experiences with their PCPs—and that could be costing employers millions.
How to prove your preventive care program is actually working
Most employers can’t answer the most important question about their preventive benefits: “Is this actually lowering our costs?” The Triple Aim framework is a defensible method for measuring the impact of preventive care—and making the case to the CFO.
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Beyond the “worried well”: how preventive care engages your highest-risk employees
For benefits leaders evaluating prevention engagement ROI, the question isn’t whether healthy employees will sign up. It’s whether the program can engage the 40-year-old male with borderline hypertension who hasn’t seen a doctor in three years. The evidence says yes.
Your doctor needs 26 hours a day: why primary care can’t deliver prevention on its own
Primary care physicians are structurally unable deliver adequate preventive care—not because they lack skill or intent, but because the economic model and patient volume demands leave no room for it. Understanding this reality is essential for deciding how to invest in workforce healthcare.
The broken promise of “free” preventive care – what your employees are actually paying
Employers think preventive care is covered at 100% by their health plan. For up to 61% of enrollees, that’s not true—and the resulting surprise bills are eroding trust, discouraging engagement, and quietly undermining the entire preventive strategy.
Get ahead of your workforce health risks
Give your employees and your business the strategic advantage of engaged prevention. Meet with an EHE benefits advisor to get a custom ROI analysis.