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Costs from poor medication adherence are estimated to exceed $100 billion annually.
V-BID Center co-director, A. Mark Fendrick, MD, co-authored Synergies at Work: Realizing the Full Value of Health Investments. This study, a joint effort with IBI and NPC, emphasizes the importance of measuring the full impacts of health investment for employers, including productivity improvements.
Traditional measures underestimate the value of health by only quantifying the medical cost offset. But for employers, there are also significant productivity gains. When workers are healthier, work-related absence and disability goes down and job performance improves. Including productivity along with medical cost offset provides a broader and more appropriate measure of the economic impacts of health investment, ultimately allowing better choices about how much to invest in health care and where to invest it.
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