The Health Transformation Alliance (HTA) announced on March 9 that it has awarded its 2021 Innovator of the Year award to Wayne Farms.
The HTA is an organization of 60 American employers whose goal is “[to disrupt] the healthcare status quo to drive better health outcomes for employees and their families covered by self–insured employer health plans,” according to its website.
Wayne Farms was awarded due to its “expanding access to quality healthcare while reducing costs for employees and themselves. These are extraordinary accomplishments in extraordinary times,” according to the announcement.
The company has a 9,000 employee workforce and was also one of the first 20 members of the HTA when it began in 2016. Other leading members include IBM, Verizon, Walgreens, Cat and many more.
“Our team members are the heart of our business. Every Wayne Farms employee makes a valuable contribution every day—their well-being is vital to our success,” said Wayne Farms Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer David Malfitano.
The HTA highlights three specific initiatives that the company made that won it the award:
Creation of a specialty drug “carve–out” with employee pharmacy and medical benefits
Engaging a firm to train and standardize the performance of on–site clinics
Implementing fraud/waste/abuse reviews on every claim and pioneering the separation of health plan administration from health plan financial transactions through use of an independent data server
Wayne Farms LLC is the seventh–largest vertically integrated poultry producer in the U.S. with annual sales exceeding $2 billion.
