ACP for Employers
We make it easy for employees and their families to discuss and document their health care wishes and ensure they are honored.
Timely ACP
A unique and innovative wellness and financial benefit
Employer-sponsored ACP provides significant value for employers while providing an important financial and wellness service to employees.
ACP is a unique employee benefit that aligns with a company’s life insurance, long term disability, and medical offerings. The need for ACP has become more acute with the COVID-19 pandemic and the unexpected deaths of people of all ages. Close to two-thirds of U.S. adults have not completed an advance directive (the most common way to express an advance care plan). ACP is a non-contributory financial and wellness offering that makes it easy to help people normalize ACP conversations within the family and support people’s evolving end-of-life wishes over time. It also helps the employer and employee manage potentially catastrophic medical costs for unwanted care. Our ACP software-as-a-service helps employees and their families create, store, and share advance care plans through an easy-to-use online process that results in complete digital plans that can be found, understood, and honored whenever and wherever they are needed.
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Why ACP
ACP makes a positive impact in employees’ lives
Employees face a lot of challenges. Terminal illnesses and fatal accidents affect people of all ages. People are working longer and later in life, and their health is diminishing. More employees are affected by family stressors as they increasingly serve as unpaid caregivers for older family members. Expensive medical care costs at the end of life for loved ones negatively affect both families and employers and can be a major harm to a family’s financial wellbeing. ACP can make a positive impact on these issues.
- People who have completed an advance care plan are more likely to enroll in hospice earlier, increasing their quality of life and accessing much needed caregiver support.
- Around 90 percent of people would prefer to die at home and those with advance care plans tend to die in the hospital less frequently than those without.
- Family members of people who have an advance care plan report more satisfaction and less stress with the end-of-life experience as they understand the person’s values and preferences.
- Advance care planning can reduce the average net costs of unwanted medical care by as much as $65,000 per person.
Beneficial ACP
Proactively manage risk and increase productivity with ACP
- Hedge against catastrophic medical expenses and premium increases at renewal by ensuring people only receive the medical care they want in accordance with their values and preferences.
- Help manage stop loss costs and lasering by documenting the advance care decisions of the most at-risk beneficiaries.
- Reduce the costs of distracted employees and presenteeism by proactively, positively addressing an issue that causes caregiver stress and family arguments.
- Improve and protect the mental and financial health of employees and their families.
- Enhance hiring and retention with a timely, low-cost, unique financial and wellness benefit.
Guided ACP
Engaging ACP for the whole extended family
Our ACP software-as-a-service guides the employee step-by-step to complete a comprehensive advance care plan. The planning process extends to the employee’s whole family (their spouse, parents, spouse’s parents, or other loved ones) with up to six accounts associated with each employee at no additional cost to the employer.
- Includes digital legal advance directive forms for all U.S. states that are completed via an easy-to-use questionnaire, signed with NIST-compliant digital signatures, and enhanced with values exercises and video living wills.
- Educational content and videos support different learning styles and health literacy levels and aid informed decision-making.
- Engaging emails and ongoing nurturing help ensure that people finish their advance care plans and share them.
- 24/7 secure, online access to completed advance care plans and sharing in the electronic health record means they are found by hospitals when they are needed.
- It’s easy for people to make changes to their plans and the system always presents the most current advance care plan.
Comprehensive ACP
End-to-end ACP solution ensures success
- Designed to help you quickly launch and grow this important financial and wellness service.
- Comprehensive education and marketing tools developed with a diversity and inclusion lens help all employees understand the benefits of ACP.
- Employee engagement includes direct initial outreach paired with supportive digital ACP educational content delivered through multiple communications channels.
- The behavior-driven notification engine nudges people until their plan is complete. When they log in to Honor My Decisions, they are guided to the next step in the planning process.
- The customizable utilization dashboard in the ACP Member Administration Portal makes it easy to know that employees and their families are using the benefit and what stage of ACP they have completed.
accessible ACP
Easily find the information to honor values and preferences
All parts of a person’s advance care plan are available 24/7 via a personalized URL in our ACP Authority repository. This URL is stored within the person’s medical record in the EHR ensuring that the care team always has access to the person’s most recent advance care plan. It is also provided on a wallet card with a scannable QR code that the person can print and carry with them. This ensures that the person’s most recent decisions and preferences can always be found. It reassures the care team that they have an accurate record of the person’s preferences and values to guide care (unlike a paper-based form). It also fixes the accessibility problem of paper-based advance directives as it is not locked away in a safety deposit box or lost in a drawer.
- Secure cloud-based repository stores each advance care plan at a unique URL and is available 24/7.
- Includes all elements of a person’s comprehensive ACP: emergency contacts, healthcare decision-maker, treatment preferences, legal documentation, end-of-life values, and video living will.
- Access via a QR code on the wallet card, share emails, and a link stored within the EHR.
ACP for Brokers/Consultants
Diversify with a unique wellness and financial offering
Our ACP software-as-a-service will help your clients better manage risk and increase employee productivity. We offer discounts for your clients (or commissions for you). This is an innovative, cost effective employee benefit that will increasingly become an industry standard and can be part of a fringe benefits package.
Our employee engagement tools and comprehensive, structured ACP ecosystem provides an end-to-end solution to ensure your clients have an effective ACP program that results in complete digital plans that can be found, understood, and honored whenever and wherever they are needed.
- Differentiate with a value-added unique financial and wellness benefit
- Help your clients hedge against catastrophic medical expenses and premium increases
- Manage employer renewals by impacting total cost of care
- Provide a solution to increase employee peace of mind and reduce distractions
ACP for Health Plans
Engage members to make informed care decisions
Our ACP software-as-a-service will improve the end-of-life experience for your members as well as their families as they discuss, document, and share informed decisions earlier and receive care in the setting that aligns with their goals and values.
Our member engagement tools and comprehensive, structured ACP ecosystem provides an end-to-end solution to ensure an effective ACP program that results in complete digital plans that can be found, understood, and honored whenever and wherever they are needed.
- Reduce in-hospital deaths
- Increase beneficiary and caregiver satisfaction
- Reduce unwanted medical treatments at end-of-life
- Reduce unnecessary hospital admissions
- Normalize advance care planning discussions
- Reduce unnecessary ICU utilization
ACP for Third-Party Administrators
Differentiate with a unique client benefit
Our ACP software-as-a-service will help your clients manage the risk of catastrophic medical expenses and stop loss costs while providing a unique employee benefit that protects the mental and financial health of employees and their families. It can be offered standalone or fit within a fringe benefits package.
Our employee engagement tools and comprehensive, structured ACP ecosystem provides an end-to-end solution to ensure your clients have an effective ACP program that results in complete, up-to-date digital plans that can be found, understood, and honored whenever and wherever they are needed.
- Differentiate with a value-added unique financial and wellness benefit
- Help your clients hedge against catastrophic medical expenses and premium increases
- Offer a way for your clients to manage stop loss costs and lasering
Need help?
Hi! We’re technology and education professionals with healthcare backgrounds who have all personally experienced the importance of advance care planning. The Alpha-1 Foundation is a part owner of our company. By using our services, you help their mission to find a cure for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and help people breathe.
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