Modern Healthcare September 2, 2017
Mohawk Industries, a flooring manufacturer with roughly 21,000 U.S. employees, has achieved a level of success in its wellness activities that would make most employers envious.
The company, based in the northwest Georgia town of Calhoun, currently self-insures about 32,000 people— staffers and their dependents. Mohawk has limited its total medical spending growth to an average of 2% per year for the past eight years. It has done so with closely managed on-site medical clinics, without creating a narrow network of providers and also without an accountable care organization.
Mohawk, like most large employers, is not involved in an ACO, and like many large employers, has no interest in doing so.
“I don’t believe the incentives that the ACO drives...
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor