Levelling Up Employee Health Benefits with CHAMP

NEWS | Pasig City, 19 September 2023 — The primacy of data intelligence and its potential for transforming the provision of health benefits by corporate organizations to their employees was underscored in a gathering organized by the Enterprise Managed Care Group with representatives of the People Management Association of the Philippines at the Augusto P. Barcelon auditorium in TMC Ortigas.

The gathering, which served to launch Managed Care’s centerpiece program, Corporate Health Accreditation and Management Program (CHAMP), offered the attendees of the free learning session, “The Human Resource Synergy: Nurturing Health, Fostering Well-bring, and Mastering Benefit Administration,” new perspectives on employee health benefits.

The Medical City President and Group CEO Dr. Eugene F. Ramos in his talk emphasized the need for human resource professionals to make use of their employee data “to take out the guesswork in creating and optimizing benefits and wellness programs … responding to the actual health needs of employees.”

“With data, informed decisions can be made about employee benefits, thus improving overall employee retention and satisfaction rates.”

This was echoed by Enterprise Managed Care Head Lawrence Y. Sibayan who, addressing a common concern of employers about managing healthcare costs, said that TMC through CHAMP’s highly customizable and flexible arrangements could help companies optimize their health-care utilization rate. He added that with CHAMP, companies will gain in terms of offering value-based services by having the healthcare provider—in this case, TMC—on the table, aside from insurance companies and HMOs, when creating and administering employee health care benefits.

Dr. Jan Paolo Dipasupil, Head for Lifestyle Medicine of the TMC Ortigas Health and Wellness Institute, talked about the common risk factors among Filipinos and the more recent developments in lifestyle medicine interventions that are available in TMC. Meanwhile, Dr. Jannel Gatbalayan-Cleto, Head of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry of the Institute of Neurological Sciences of TMC Ortigas talked about Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and how it may address difficulties in a post-COVID workplace.

The enhanced CHAMP program offers more than packages to partner-organizations; it provides companies with health-benefits consulting from managed care professionals of TMC. “We are here to provide value to our corporate partners, helping them to manage costs and utilization, while ensuring that they provide their employees with a high level of care,” said Sibayan. “This way, companies will not only boost their productivity, but also confidently boost employee satisfaction and their own reputation in their respective industries.”

Today’s event was attended by over 94 HR leaders and professionals from 68 member companies of PMAP. PMAP was represented by its Treasurer and Chapter President of the PMAP Tarlac Chapter, Ma. Consuelo M. Reyes at the event.