While most employers offer health insurance, do you ever wonder why? So what is employer-sponsored health insurance? What is employer-sponsored health insurance? Employer-sponsored health insurance is an insurance plan funded by an employer. Employers care about...
The Alliance recently sat down with Michelle Golden, Executive Director of Human Resources and Public Relations at the Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District, to ask what advice she would offer public employers that are making changes to their health benefits....
As a trusted, objective partner for more than 300 self-funded employers and their consultants, The Alliance is improving access to high-value healthcare for more than 105,000 lives – and we’ve been doing it for more than 30 years. Our vast experience with...
Employers with healthy workforces are paying needlessly high health care costs, which is why many of them trust us to self-fund their health plans. After all, employers that choose self funding retain savings from things like unused care, utilizing custom provider...
Although the pandemic’s future is uncertain, employers are looking at new trends in employee benefits to get the most out of their health plans and support their employees like never before. Here’s this year’s new trends in employee benefits and what it means for...
The debate between fully insured vs. self insured health plans for employers is becoming clear. As enrollment numbers for traditional commercial plans steadily decline, self insured (or self-funded) plans continue to grow. What once was only for multinational...
The health care landscape is changing, and employers are driving that change through High-Value Health Care. As a recent PBGH-KFF survey recently uncovered, 87% of employers believe that the current health care system is unsustainable, and now the government is...
Self-funding (what’s known as self-insured insurance) is a health plan in which an employer is paying for their employees’ health care claims. In a self-funded plan, employers set aside money into a “fund” or trust that’s earmarked to pay their employees’ health...
Most employers have recognized the strain that the pandemic has placed on their employees and renewed their health benefits plans without significant changes to cost-sharing and network plan design. Efforts to improve delivery systems and networks to improve...
As you begin the new year, you’re probably reassessing your benefit plan and vendor partners to help improve your employees’ health and wellbeing. If you want to enhance your employee experience, reduce spending waste, and improve vendor efficiency, consider...
