Business Case for Employers

• Many organizations currently don’t pay enough attention to the hidden costs of avoidable sick days and presenteeism — the cost of employees who are on the job but not fully functioning because of real illnesses and medical conditions, including asthma, seasonal allergies, arthritis, migraines, depression, back pain, gastrointestinal disorders and diabetes¹
• Making the right medical decisions helps employers to reduce benefit costs
• The total cost of presenteeism in the United States is greater than $150 billion per year²
• Maternity care is the number one reason for hospitalization among most employee populations
• The highest cost for maternity care is when a pre-term infant (those born at less than 39 completed weeks of gestation) is treated in the neonatal intensive care unit
• The cost of cancer treatment is typically among the top three most costly conditions representing, on average, 12% of total medical expenses³
• Cancer is one of the leading causes of both short- and long-term disability⁴

Project Goals

• Increase awareness of Choosing Wisely Campaign to health care stakeholders in the Midwest
• To provide employers resources of the Choosing Wisely campaign
• To help physicians, patients and other health care stakeholders think and talk about overuse of health care resources
• To promote wise choices by clinicians in order to improve health care outcomes
• Increase awareness of patient-centered care that avoids unnecessary and even harmful interventions
• To help consumers become more empowered in partnering with their doctor to receive high quality care