MGM Resorts’ Direct Care Health Plan is a patient-centered medical home model that contracts with local physicians to control increasing medical and drug costs by reinforcing healthy lifestyle choices, proper benefit utilization, and patient care delivery. The program uses comprehensive utilization analytics, population health initiatives, and care delivery metrics to improve health outcomes and reduce costs. Enrollment in the Direct Care Plan has increased by 40% for 2014 to over 7,000 employees, with a 94% satisfaction rating among those who have opted-in. Further expansion is planned for 2015 including allowing other employers to opt-in and increasing participation of local health care providers in Nevada.
Physicians who contract with MGM invest their time in discussing how best to adapt the principles of the medical home model to the unique challenges that Nevada’s health care system presents. Specifically they have worked to address:
Enhanced payment is provided to primary care physicians who directly contract with MGM and provide PCMH services to MGM employees in the practice.
In 2012, previously undiagnosed conditions were diagnosed and preventative screening rates increased dramatically due to a 95% participation rate in the annual physical