"WellNet will give companies the program for free if they transfer their pharmacy benefits to WellNet" so it can be tracked better, as now if you go and pay cash for a generic $4.00 drug, it's out of the insurance system as far as I know. I hear this from doctors who get dinged for not prescribing enough generic drugs on their pay for performance incentive pay, as if enough patients use the $4.00 generic cash programs, it stilts the numbers for the over all practice. The one comment below is also a very good point about employers having information relative to the medications an employee is taking.
I have already seen something similar to this in places of employment where the employee is liked until they end up sick and contribute to the employer having to deal with higher rates, and then they are not so popular anymore when it comes to counting the beans and dollars and granted the interest is in the information flow, but once more what do we give up for this? How far in health care do we refine the dollar, to the point where it's almost gone where nobody is paying the bills and to where employees just simply opt out of participating? I have been doing my own survey of asking people how satisfied they are with our current health system and I have yet to find one positive out of asking around 100 or so people. BD
WellNet Healthcare, a Bethesda health management company, is launching the beta version of this social network, Point to Point Healthcare, this month. Since 1994, WellNet has built its business collecting detailed data on employees' medical and pharmacy activity so that companies can better evaluate their corporate health plans.
And others have reservations about what information employers will have access to. WellNet said it plans to collect anonymous data allowing employers to see, for instance, how many people are using certain drugs and specialists -- something it already does under its existing systems. "What if you have a very expensive employee who takes tons of medicine? What does this mean?" Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, said about efforts similar to WellNet's. "These are very sensitive areas."
A Social Network for Your Doctor, Pharmacist and Insurer - washingtonpost.com
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