Municipal Employee Health Clinics An Emerging Trend

By Greg Jones, reporterThe City of West Palm Beach is one in a growing number of Florida municipalities that are turning to employee health clinics as a method of controlling rising medical costs amid shrinking budgets.The amount of savings that an employee health clinic vary based on the size of the workforce, but according to a 2008 study by Hewitt and Associates, for every $1 spent on creating a facility an employer can save between $2 and $6. Advocates say the clinics can help control workers' compensation costs, but savings on the group health side is the main impetus behind the trend...