"The Tri-State Health Care Coalition has worked on many collaborative initiatives in areas of patient satisfaction, plan designs, wellness education, legislative issues and many additional Associate benefits. Our coalition also works continuously improving the value of our local health care along with Administrative Services to its member companies and their Associates. With the entire community as its focus, we feel this provides for a healthier community in which we all share an interest."

Jodie Felter
Director Human Resources
Niemann Foods

Membership Benefits

Member support services

Bi-monthly membership meetings with updates on local health care issues and speakers on topics of specific interest (recent examples include presentations on Disease Management, HIPAA, consumer-driven healthcare, pharmacy cost management)
Networking with other human resources and benefits professionals
Legislative education on important issues such as managed care regulation and physician anti-trust exemption
Periodic benefit plan comparisons for benchmarking your plan against other area employers'

Health Education

Health promotion material available in every newsletter
"Healthy at Heart" Disease Management Program, a 12-month program designed to help employers more efficiently and effectively manage overall Cardiovascular risk in the employee population.
Ask Me 3 Educational Materials, Tool and Resources. Ask Me 3 is a program to promote awareness and solutions around the issue of low health literacy and its effect on health outcomes. It is designed to enhance communication between providers and patients.
Periodic seminars on topics such as health services demand management, health care consumer empowerment, structuring effective employee health programs
Discounted pricing on self-care manuals and materials for distribution to employees

Data Collection and Analysis

Aggregate data comparing hospital utilization, cost and quality.

Quality Improvement

Bridges to Excellence (BTE) - program developed by employers, physicians, health care services researchers and other industry experts to create significant leaps in the quality of care by recognizing and rewarding health care providers who demonstrate that they have implemented comprehensive solutions in the management of patients and deliver safe, timely, effective efficient, equitable and patient-centered care.

Group Purchasing

Access to Tri-State Coalition PPO network that provides access to the HealthLink PPO network.
Group-negotiated claims processing and plan administration
Pharmacy Benefit Management program, providing deeply discounted retail network locally, and throughout country, plus discounted rates through mail order option
Discounted premiums for vision plan through Vision Services Plan (VSP)