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Flex 2002 News:
Merck’s Employee Health Care Guiding Principles
Merck’s health care benefits
are a cornerstone of the Company’s total compensation program. To ensure
that these offerings remain high quality, competitive and appropriate, Merck
has developed a set of employee health care guiding principles. These
principles—which we are articulating for the first time—are designed to
clarify the values that shape all aspects of Merck’s current health care
benefits program, and to establish a strategic framework moving forward.
Quality. Merck will endeavor to enhance employee health and productivity
by offering health care plans that provide consistent, clinically-appropriate
benefits and best-in-class service.
Choice. The Company will provide a meaningful selection of health
care plans, by offering high-performing national and local networks, wherever
possible.
Economics/Cost. Merck will manage health care costs by selecting
plans appropriately (based on competition among plans) and setting Company/employee
cost-sharing levels competitively over time (based on specific benefits
coverage, level of care management, etc.).
Education and Tools. The Company will supply employees with the
information and tools necessary to be effective purchasers of quality,
financially efficient health care.
Fast Fact
Please take note of the graphic icons introduced here—one for each of Merck’s employee health care guiding principles. These icons are designed to help you understand how the Flex 2002 benefit changes and information highlighted in this newsletter tie back to—and support—the strategic framework set forth by these guiding principles.
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Merck’s Employee Health
Care Guiding Principles and You
Although Merck’s employee health care guiding principles provide
a foundation for the Company’s medical and dental benefits, they can’t succeed
without your help.
As an employee, you play
an active role in every aspect of the health care process. How you manage
your health—and how you choose, use and pay for health care—directly affects
you and Merck. As you consider these employee health care guiding principles
and all the changes profiled in this newsletter:
- Look for ways
to factor the guiding principles of quality, choice and economics/cost
into your own health care decisions;
- Actively use the
tools and information Merck provides to become an educated benefits
consumer; and
- Take responsibility
for your health—and your health care decisions—each and every day.
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2009 Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, N.J., U.S.A.
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Quality. Merck will endeavor to enhance employee health and productivity
by offering health care plans that provide consistent, clinically-appropriate
benefits and best-in-class service.
Choice. The Company will provide a meaningful selection of health
care plans, by offering high-performing national and local networks, wherever
possible.
Economics/Cost. Merck will manage health care costs by selecting
plans appropriately (based on competition among plans) and setting Company/employee
cost-sharing levels competitively over time (based on specific benefits
coverage, level of care management, etc.).
Education and Tools. The Company will supply employees with the
information and tools necessary to be effective purchasers of quality,
financially efficient health care. 
