Marathon Health

HR leaders know that offering great benefits isn't enough, as employees need to understand them, use them and see their value. Too often, employees underuse their benefits because they don’t know what’s available or how to take full advantage of the services.

Growing employee ownership of benefits means shifting from passive participation to active engagement. When employees take charge of their health, finances, and well-being through the resources you provide, everyone wins.

Follow these tips to discover how increasing benefits ownership drives better health outcomes, offers a bigger ROI, and leads to a healthier workforce.

How to Grow Employee Ownership of Benefits Increase employee engagement with benefits by understanding needs, tailoring communication, and offering incentives.

While it’s best to encourage all employees to utilize their health benefits, focusing additional engagement efforts on high-risk members can offer a better ROI. That’s because 90% of the nation's $4.5 trillion in annual health care expenditures are for people with chronic and mental health conditions, according to the CDC.

That breakdown includes:

1. Employees with Type 2 diabetes face medical expenses 2.6 times higher than those without the condition.
2. Heart disease and stroke cost the U.S. health care system $254 billion per year and cause $168 billion in lost productivity on the job.
3. Obesity, which places people at higher risk of chronic conditions, costs the U.S. health care system nearly $173 billion a year.

By targeting benefits outreach to employees managing chronic conditions, or those of high- or unknown-risk for chronic conditions, you can support employees in managing conditions or risk factors to avoid further complications and high-cost health events.

Read our latest blog to learn more:

Why Engaging the Right Patients Matter Maximize ROI by engaging high-risk employees in health benefits and learn simple strategies to identify and engage this critical population.

🚨 New study: Advanced primary care yields immediate ROI 🚨

Employers have long questioned whether better healthcare for their people can also mean lower costs. Our latest analysis confirms: it can.

Key highlights from our new claims-based study reveal that advanced primary care:

➡️ Delivers ROI in the first year
➡️ Drives more preventive care use
➡️ Cuts high-cost ER and inpatient visits

This is real, measurable ROI — not just for the long term, but right now.

Read the full press release: https://hubs.la/Q03tcq-c0

New Study from Marathon Health Reveals Advanced Primary Care Yields Immediate ROI and Curbs Acute Care Use As employers brace for one of the largest health care cost increases, new research confirms that advanced primary care is better at lowering costs.