3 Ways Companies Can Make Healthcare More Affordable
As healthcare costs continue to rise, three data-driven strategies can help companies reduce the expense of employee health benefits – without sacrificing quality.
Video: Was Carrum’s CEO the Voice of Reason at HLTH?
Sach Jain, the CEO of Carrum Health, which helps self-insured employers manage their surgical care costs, had a sobering perspective at HLTH, a conference that celebrates innovation in healthcare.
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Survey on the Healthcare Financial Landscape Offers a Roadmap for Stakeholders
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
Milu Health Raises $4.8M for AI-Driven Health Savings Platform
Milu Health's $4.8 million seed round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health and included participation from BoxGroup, PagsGroup and 81 Collection.
How Corporate Healthcare is Leading on Value-Based Care
Value-based care depends on keeping a total population of patients healthier and less in need of higher-cost services. To do so, organizations must be able to predict costs in advance, better understand patient risks, and manage the cost of services. Corporate healthcare is set up to do just that.
Mercer: Cost of Health Benefits To Jump 5.4% in 2024
Employers expect health benefit costs to increase 5.4% per employee on average in 2024, new data from Mercer shows. This is due to inflationary pressures and health system consolidation.
Employer Health Plans Hold the Key To Reducing Healthcare Costs
The major healthcare players have no incentive to bring costs down. Insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other healthcare interests profit by charging higher and higher rates. However, one entity has the scale and incentive to meaningfully lower costs: employer health plans.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
A new kind of CMO: Why your company needs a chief medical officer
Companies in every industry are now hiring a chief medical officer—an executive once found only in healthcare organizations—to implement and oversee programs that optimize employee well-being.
Want workers to be better healthcare shoppers? Cut them a check.
Researchers examined a program that paid workers between $25 and $500 for using price transparency tools and choosing a lower cost provider for 131 different elective medical services.