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MSK conditions are among the top drivers of employer healthcare spend. A structured MSK strategy reduces avoidable surgeries, unnecessary imaging, and fragmented care pathways by guiding employees to high-value providers and preventative solutions. This drives measurable reductions in claims spend and improves productivity outcomes.
HR and Benefits leaders provide governance and communication support, while we handle the full strategic and operational execution. This includes claims analysis, pathway design, vendor integration, reporting alignment, and rollout planning—all designed to minimize workload on internal teams.
We work directly with TPAs and brokers to align benefit designs, steerage pathways, claims reporting, and vendor management. Our goal is to integrate MSK solutions into the existing benefits ecosystem, ensuring consistent communication, reduced friction, and clearer ROI tracking.
Early indicators—such as reductions in unnecessary imaging and surgical recommendations—typically emerge within 6–9 months. Full financial ROI, including claims savings and productivity gains, is usually realized within 12–18 months depending on population size and baseline MSK costs.
Yes. We partner with digital MSK platforms, navigation tools, engagement technologies, and analytics partners to integrate their capabilities into employer MSK pathways. This ensures alignment of triage logic, reporting, communication strategies, and outcome measurement with employer goals.
Clinical partners play a central role in implementing evidence-based care pathways. We work with PT networks and MSK clinicians to streamline referral channels, reinforce conservative care, improve adherence, and reduce unnecessary escalations. This results in better outcomes and lower claims costs for employers.
Yes. We assess vendor performance, engagement rates, clinical outcomes, and cost-saving impact. Whether organizations want to optimize current vendors or evaluate new ones, we ensure alignment with your strategic goals and employer population needs.
For employers, we typically review medical claims, imaging spend, PT utilization, and current vendor performance data. For tech and clinical partners, we align on engagement metrics, outcome reporting, pathway adherence, and any available cost-avoidance insights. We facilitate all data coordination with TPAs, brokers, and vendors.
We create a unified MSK ecosystem by aligning vendor workflows, shared reporting standards, care pathways, and data-integration logic. Our role is to simplify the ecosystem so employers, TPAs, and brokers have a clear view of how each partner contributes to outcomes and ROI.
Benefits include a material reduction in MSK healthcare spend, improved employee outcomes and engagement, and a streamlined vendor ecosystem with clearer, more efficient care pathways. Employers gain enhanced reporting and ROI transparency, stronger adoption of evidence-based conservative care over unnecessary procedures, and clearer value positioning for both technology and clinical partners operating in the employer market.
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