Case Studies

Below is a list of case studies that demonstrate actual results that RMP achieved for some of our clients. In addition, we’ve provided links to some great examples of innovative solutions to healthcare challenges by companies around the United States.
 

RMP Case Studies

• Case Study: Horsham Veterinary Hospital – A Multi-Year Strategy Delivers
  Small company healthcare
  Like most small to mid-sized employers, Horsham Veterinary Hospital was experiencing annual cost increases of 15% to 20% and struggling to manage its health benefit costs in the years leading up to 2008. (See last year’s Case Study.) Thanks to a multi-year strategy implemented by RMP, this animal healthcare facility realized a 1.1% reduction in the cost of health benefits for year 2010-2011. Read this Case Study.
• Health Benefits Case Study: Identifying Waste, Saving Money
  Large self-insured healthcare
  In the summer of 2009, PATH®, a subsidiary of RMP, was engaged to conduct a health benefits cost-reduction study for a large, self-insured employer. The employer, with 1,600 employees throughout the country, was experiencing an unexplained spike in its health benefit costs in 2009, which were projected to be $16.1 million. Midway through 2009, annual costs were trending towards an expected level of spending close to $20 million, and the client wanted to know why—and what they could do about it. PATH’s intervention yielded a set of recommendations to achieve between $3.7 and $5.1 million of savings, depending on how assertive the client wants to be. Read this Case Study.
• Health Benefits Case Study: Zieger & Sons – Bending the Cost Curve
  Small company healthcare
  Four generations of Ziegers have owned and managed a wholesale florist business started in 1910 in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Like most small businesses, the company has struggled in recent years with the cost of healthcare. In 2008, Zieger & Sons began working with RMP to implement a multi-year strategy to control healthcare costs. With RMP’s help, the company realized a 13.1% decline in the annual cost of health benefits for the 2008-2009 policy year. Zieger & Sons continues to provide its employees with comparable benefits while saving an additional 1.9% in health benefit costs for the 2009-2010 policy year. Zieger & Sons has outperformed the market in 2008 and 2009—and are positioned to do so again in 2010. Read this Case Study.

Innovative Healthcare Solutions

• Case Study: Bending the Cost Curve – How Safeway Does It
  Large self-insured healthcare
  Supermarket chain Safeway is acknowledged by President Obama and others as the model for controlling healthcare costs by focusing attention on wellness programs and preventive care. How does Safeway do it? Safeway takes a comprehensive approach, involving corporate commitment, changes in plan design, and financial incentives that reward healthy behavior. Let’s take a look at each of these critical success factors to Safeway’s approach. Read this Case Study.
• Case Study: Bending the Cost Curve–How Indiana Does It
  Government healthcare
  On March 1, 2010, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels wrote an opinion column for The Wall Street Journal called “Hoosiers and Health Savings Accounts.” We support Governor Daniels in his advocacy for consumer-driven healthcare in general and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) in particular. Why? Because there is compelling evidence that 30% of what we spend on healthcare in this country is wasted—the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) calls it overuse, underuse, and misuse of healthcare in the United States. Governor Daniels and the State of Indiana are finding solutions and setting an example for the rest of the country, so let’s see what we can learn from their experience. Read this Case Study.