Integrative Medicine Services Program (IMSP) Benefits

Benefits of a CIMEx Health Integrative Medicine Services Program (IMSP) include:

1. Increased patient satisfaction can be measured using standard patient satisfaction surveys. Other measures, like a decrease in pain or stress scores, can be added. Each organization needs to determine what will work best for them.
2. Increased revenue can occur when payers cover these types of services or patients pay for the services personally. In some cases grants may support the services and provide another form of revenue to the organization.
3. Increased profit margins can result from cost shifting of some services to less expensive clinical personnel, which allows time for physicians to focus on higher clinical priorities, and also generate a higher profit margin.
4. Increased patient retention appears to be a strong component of an IMSP as organizations are seen, by patients, to be responsive to their specific demands for certain CAM therapies.
5. Decreased length of stay can occur in some cases as noted previously with postoperative recovery.
6. Decreased costs may be an outcome in situations where therapies are used to decrease postoperative pain and possibly resulting in a shorter length of stay or earlier discharge from ambulatory surgery.

back to top