Benefit professionals face a significant challenge: traditional approaches to joint, spine, and musculoskeletal conditions continue driving up costs while delivering suboptimal results. Together, physicians and benefits leaders have an opportunity to restructure how employees access and progress through treatment.
ADX has identified three critical phases that can transform musculoskeletal health outcomes while substantially reducing healthcare spend:
Early Engagement: Getting It Right from the Start We must ensure employees connect immediately with innovative doctors who understand their condition. When physicians implement comprehensive diagnostic protocols and systematic second opinions, they eliminate the costly cycle of repeated specialist referrals and duplicate testing. Experience shows this approach prevents misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment paths that plague traditional care models.
Conservative Care First: Building a Strong Foundation We have learned that when multiple specialists collaborate within a unified treatment framework, they eliminate unnecessary redundancies and optimize care sequencing. By beginning each case with carefully selected non-surgical interventions, guided by the latest clinical evidence, physicians reduce surgical procedures and their associated complications. This comprehensive approach decreases reliance on costly medications while promoting sustainable employee health.
Surgical Innovation: Advancing When Necessary Leading physicians now offer state-of-the-art cellular therapies and minimally invasive procedures that frequently eliminate the need for traditional surgical interventions. By carefully selecting surgeons with demonstrated quality metrics and measuring their performance over time, benefit professionals achieve better outcomes with fewer complications and readmissions. Goal-aligned treatment planning incorporates employee-specific functional goals, leading to higher compliance rates and significantly lower failed treatment expenses.
Organizations implementing this framework typically achieve substantial reductions in healthcare spend while their employees experience better outcomes and higher satisfaction. Together, benefit professionals and physicians can transform how musculoskeletal care is delivered and received.
ADX patients experience these benefits and see an average of over $14,000 per patient savings. ($49,409 Non-ADX Average Cost vs. $35,028 ADX Average Cost). For more information, call ADX at 1-855-251-4055.