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Helping Employers Become More Effective Purchasers of Healthcare


Helping Employers Become More Effective Purchasers of Healthcare

Most Americans receive private coverage through employment-based plans and costs continue to rise without a commensurate rise in quality. That creates a strong ...

Empowering Employer Purchasers: Recommendations To Support ...

1) Data availability: Employer group health plans are responsible for procuring high-quality, efficient, and affordable care for their members ...

Employers Seek Strategies to Combat Rising Health Care Costs

Employers that implement strategies like value-based drug formularies and tiered provider networks are experiencing lower health care costs.

Employers Embrace Strategies to Improve Health Care Affordability

Many employers are turning to technology solutions to help manage expenses and improve the member experience, WTW found. More than half, or 54%, ...

Employer-Led Strategies to Improve the Value of Health Spending

The provision of onsite health care can be a tremendous investment for employers, but for employees and their families it can serve as an efficient conduit ...

Employer strategies to reduce health costs and improve quality ...

There is considerable interest in how employers can use their purchasing power to improve quality and reduce cost in the healthcare system.

Advancing Quality Through Employer-Led Initiatives

The notion that employers might use their purchasing power to help improve the quality and efficiency of the health care system was articulated as early as the ...

How to Teach Employees to Be Good Healthcare Consumers | HPS

Make resources available across multiple internal channels to empower employees to learn more about their benefits offering and to become smarter healthcare ...

A Better Way for Employers to Procure Health Care

Or employers may delegate the purchasing of health care to their employees through high deductible plans, health saving accounts, defined ...

How Employers Are Shaping The Future Of Healthcare - Forbes

To help ease this strain, more employers are adding virtual care ... As more benefits buyers embrace effective patient engagement, care ...

Employers turn to alternative strategies to control health care spending

Only 34% of employers expect to shift costs to employees through premium contributions, and just 20% will promote account-based health plans or high-deductible ...

Contributor: Do Health Plans Have a Plan to Help Employer ...

If purchasers want solutions outside of traditional health plans, they will need to conduct diligent research not only on an alternative ...

Tackling High Health Care Prices: Four Employer-Led Efforts

While success has varied and challenges are daunting, these strategies point to possible avenues for other employers to explore. Scaling them ...

What Do Employers and Other Healthcare Purchasers Really Want?

Lack of care coordination. · Access to care, especially specialists and mental healthcare. · Delays in care due to access issues. · for employers/ ...

The Employer-Led Health Care Revolution - Harvard Business Review

Health plans may be contractually prohibited from disclosing negotiated rates with providers. And although progress in getting health systems to share learning ...

How Employers Are Grappling with Rising Health Care Costs

One of the most significant findings from the survey is the overwhelming concern regarding rising health care costs. The majority of employers ...

Purchaser strategies to influence quality of care - PubMed Central

Governments, employers, social insurance funds, community based insurance organizations, health plans, donors, and other buyers of health services are ...

5 Ways Employers Are Addressing Healthcare

More than 71% of respondents are actively integrating, or considering integrating, their medical, pharmacy, dental, vision, and/or disability ...

Federal Solutions To Address Rising Costs of Employer-Sponsored ...

Among these solutions are employers grouping together to gain negotiation power against the main drivers of increased health plan costs, ...

Facing higher health costs, employers get tough - Axios

But employers say secrecy around negotiated health care prices too often prevents them from accessing data that would help them figure out if ...