Corporate Culture of Health: Elusive and Expensive

摘要

When I was recruited to Jefferson in early 1990 as a young assistant professor of medicine, I learned that our employee benefits were approximately 12 cents of every dollar spent on total benefits. In other words, from the university's perspective, they were paying a reasonable fee for all the relatively rich benefit packages that were available to most employees at that point in history. When I stepped down as Dean of the College of Population Health earlier last year, employee benefit costs were topping out at 37 cents for every dollar spent—more than triple of what they were just 3 decades ago.