U.S. Senate Testimony: Employer Innovations that Reduce Health Care Costs
Summary of testimony by Cheryl DeMars, President and CEO, The Alliance before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Hearing on Nov. 28, 2018.
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Relationship-Based Health Care Maximizes Healthy Outcomes
“Football and health care are not that different. Both are team events. We are all stakeholders in the health care system,” said Dr. Jan Berger at The Alliance’s Aug. 2017 Population Health event.
Behind the Headlines: The Policy and Politics of ACA Repeal and Replace
Seven years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the political barriers to a substantive national dialogue to advance sound health care policy are once again front and center.
The Top Five Questions You Should Ask Your Doctor
Searching for content to use in your employee newsletter? Here’s a ready-made article for you to use.
Review Policy on Unique Plan Design and “Set Your Own Price” Services
The Alliance adopted a formal policy last year barring any activity by members that impairs our ability to effectively contract with providers on behalf of the membership.
What do they have in common? They all are 2016 Health Transformation Award recipients.
The 2016 Health Transformation Award recipients include one employer, one national initiative, one hospital and two individuals that have significantly contributed to making the health care system better in ways that matter to patients and employers.
Employers Step Up to Take Control of Health Care Costs
Employers are stepping up and taking charge of rising health care costs by planning changes to their health care plans, this according to a recent survey conducted by Towers Watson, titled 2014 Health Care Changes Ahead.
Evaluating Provider Quality Care
Consumers have a hard time finding information about provider quality and an even harder time trusting it, according to The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research who recently released the results of a survey conducted in May and June.
Explaining Self-Funding Can Be Easier Than You Think
If you're finding it hard to explain self-funding to your employees and colleagues, a good place to start can be sharing this fact: 59 percent of U.S. employees in the private sector already receive benefits through a self-funded health plan.
Health Care Spending Projected to Increase by 6.8% Next Year
Health care spending is projected to increase by 6.8 percent in 2015, according to a recent article produced by Modern Healthcare. The analysis was done by PwC's Health Research Institute where they surveyed more than 1,000 employers from 35 different industries that in total provide health care coverage to approximately 93 million people.
