The Company That Solved Health Care: How Serigraph Dramatically Reduced Skyrocketing Costs While Providing...

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John Torinus, Jr.

The Company That Solved Health Care

How Serigraph Dramatically Reduced Skyrocketing Costs While Providing Better Care, and How Every...

John Torinus, Jr.

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BenBella Books
16 August 2016

Business & management; Medical insurance

Even with new health-care policies, one thing is clear- health-care costs will continue to rise dramatically. While individuals may get better coverage, businesses will have the same problem they've had for the last four decades. Health care, one of corporate America's largest expenses, is growing at double-digit rates, and nothing done in Washington will change that.

But one medium-size company set out to tame the beast of rising health-care costs, employing best practices and cutting-edge ideas. The results have caused others to sit up and take notice. Serigraph, Inc., a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of decorative parts, and its chairman, John Torinus, did what Washington can't or won't do- reduce cost increases to less than 2 percent while improving the quality of health care for its employees. The implications for corporate America are staggering--the opportunity for genuine reform in an expense category that has been spiraling out of control.

Serigraph began its initiative to control health-care costs in 2003, when its annual health-care bill was $5 million and another $750,000 was needed for the projected 15 percent annual increase. The company employed three strategies for reform, each of which can cut the health-care bill by 20 percent to 40 percent--consumer responsibility, the primacy of primary over specialty care and centers of value. Applied in concert with other management methods, these three approaches almost eliminated growth in health-care costs while improving the quality of employee care. The results are documented. They are beyond refute.

The Company That Solved Health Care describes the fascinating details of Serigraph's program, and shows how any company can achieve similar results. This book is essential reading for any manager responsible for his or her company's health-care expenses, any academic or thinker involved in the health-care debate and anyone who wants to better understand why health-care costs have been rising and what can be done to achieve price stability while improving patient care.

By: John Torinus Jr.
Imprint: BenBella Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 215g
ISBN: 9781944648282
ISBN 10: 1944648283
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 16 August 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chairman and general manager of Serigraph Inc., John Torinus Jr. has studied and practiced management for more than 50 years. His company had $40 million in sales annually when he bought it in 1987; it now generates $120 million and has more than 1,000 employees in plants in the United States, Mexico, China, and India. Torinus graduated magna cum laude from Yale and was a company commander in the U.S. Marine Corps. Torinus has served as business editor and columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.