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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 theyve had for the last four decades. Health care, one of corporate Americas 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 cant or wont 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 Serigraphs program, and shows how any company can achieve similar results. This book is essential reading for any manager responsible for his or her companys 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.

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Table of Contents PRAIS FOR THE COMPANY THAT SOLVED HEALTH CARE JOHN TORINUS - photo 1
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PRAIS FOR THE COMPANY THAT SOLVED HEALTH CARE
JOHN TORINUS is a national treasure. Every business can learn from what he did at Serigraph.
REGINA E. HERZLINGER,
Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration
at the Harvard Business School, author of Who Killed Health Care?
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THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY is badly in need of new business models and systems thinking. The Company That Solved Health Care incorporates some of the best management disciplines as it proves health and health care costs can be improved dramatically at the ground level.
PAUL ONEILL,
former CEO of Alcoa and Secretary of the Treasury
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TORINUS HAS SOUGHT OUT the best innovators in Wisconsin for delivering more value in health care, and he put them to work at Serigraph. His company has proved that purchasers of health care can manage their costs and control their destiny far more effectively than command and control government approaches. He has pushed the industry hard to improve, and it has helped us get better. His prescription is on the mark.
STEVE BRENTON,
President, Wisconsin Hospital Association
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WHILE MUCH OF THE COUNTRY is focused on the attempts to reform health care in Washington, there is a revolution going on under their noses. This book describes the real-world revolution that is transforming health care into a cost-efficient, accountable system through empowering consumers. John Torinus is no dreamer. He shows us how his company has walked the walk and actually made it happen. This is must-reading for every employer who is concerned about staying in business in a difficult economy.
GREG SCANDLEN, Editor, Consumer Power Report
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MANITOWOC COUNTY took a page directly out of the innovations for managing health care costs spearheaded by John Torinus at Serigraph, and it worked. We convinced our non-represented employees and six employee bargaining units to work with us in making these changes, putting millions of dollars into the pockets of our four hundred employees while capturing significant savings for taxpayers. Consumer-driven health care changes EVERYTHING!
BOB ZIEGELBAUER,
Wisconsin State Representative (D)
and Manitowoc (WI) County Executive
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TORINUS HAS SUCCINCTLY CHRONICLED the remarkable success at Serigraph in controlling company health care costs. This story serves as evidence to U.S. employers and the government that its possible to bend the health care expense curve. His prescription? Work with employees to help them become better consumers by providing price and quality data on doctors, hospitals, and prescription drugs so they can take responsibility for their own health, and by creating benefit incentives that encourage the right behaviors. This isnt academic theory. Torinus has made it work.
JOHN TOUSSAINT,
CEO, ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value
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PREVENTION, WELLNESS, and chronic disease management have to be foremost if the nation is going to dramatically improve health and significantly lower costs of care. Serigraphs business model proves those initiatives work in a very real way. The book is a must for every business as it deals with health care.
TOMMY THOMPSON,
former Governor of Wisconsin and
Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
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ANYONE HOPING to sit quietly on the sidelines until John Torinus tires of his campaign to change health care in our country would do well to remember that John rode his bike across America at age 71 and skis through the hilly and frigid course of the American Birkebeiner. John brings the focus and energy of an endurance athlete to his work to keep his company competitive by changing the way we buy and, more importantly, think about health care.
Since I met John in 1996, he has been an active participant in health reform debates and a relentless voice for change. We were at the table together when a small group of Wisconsin providers started down that path of transparency as part of the Wisconsin Collaborative for Health Care Quality. Those initial steps were a leap of faith as providers began to share quality and cost data with customers and each other. This work set a path for larger initiatives, like the Wisconsin Hospital Associations Price Point and Check Point. Wisconsin is now considered a national leader, due in some measure to that early work.
His book offers the reader a birds-eye view of the changes and innovations John shepherded at Serigraph. Like all good innovators, John keeps experimenting and has hits and misses. While I am not in total agreement with all that John has proposed for his workers (for example, I share his co-workers skepticism about medical tourism), clearly his focus on staff engagement is key to any health reform effort. This is a critical point whether at the work area or in the national reform agenda. His prescription offers insights into the winning strategy of empowering individuals to take an active role in managing their health. The focus on wellness, prevention, and end-of-life planning yield more impressive benefits than cost savings: some of Johns co-workers will no doubt live longer and live better because they were offered the right incentives and support to catch disease early or take steps to prevent it altogether.
John and I will continue to debate and argue over the best methods for lowering overall costs in the years ahead, but Johns heart is in the right direction. What he is looking for is what every CEO should be focusing onhow do we improve the health status of our workers while improving the cost and quality of health care services. I look forward to the thought-provoking discussions, and his readers will enjoy a thought-provoking book.
WILLIAM D. PETASNICK,
President and CEO, Froedtert & Community Health and
Former Chair of the American Hospital Association
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SERIGRAPHS FOCUS, organizational commitment, and collaboration with its health plan administrator, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and providers of value in health care proves that there are innovative solutions for getting the hyper-inflation in health care under control. Its not a blame game; its about individual engagement, transparency, and effective management.
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