by Kyle Monroe | Jul 20, 2021 | Members & Employers
Hospital consolidation – when two or more providers merge – has become a growing concern among employers and other health care purchasers, and its presence looms large after facing the fallout of COVID-19. However, hospital consolidation didn’t arrive with the...
by Kyle Monroe | Jul 6, 2021 | Members & Employers
As Americans, we generally utilize health care services at the same frequency and intensity as other developed countries, yet we continually pay more. A lot more. My friend and colleague, Cheryl DeMars, President and CEO of The Alliance, has been quoted publicly quite...
by Mike Roche | Jun 22, 2021 | Members & Employers
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 care...
by Melina Kambitsi, Ph.D. | Jun 8, 2021 | Individuals, Members & Employers
Millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) make up nearly a quarter of the entire US population. It’s not surprising then that they are worth an estimated $3.4 trillion in future health care spending. But their participation in the current health care marketplace...
by Jennifer Austin | May 25, 2021 | Events by The Alliance, Members & Employers
This is a blog recap of our virtual event, The Alliance 2021 Spring Symposium, held on May 6. Click here to view the recording and for more Employer Resources. Cheryl DeMars, CEO of The Alliance, kicked off the event by illustrating how the rate of medical inflation...
by Jennifer Austin | May 11, 2021 | Events by The Alliance, Members & Employers
This is a blog recap of a virtual event held on April 26. Click here to view the full webinar recording. Click here to skip to the Employer Resources section. To begin the webinar, Kyle Monroe, Vice President of Network Development & Provider...
by Cheryl DeMars | Apr 27, 2021 | Health Policy, Members & Employers
Price transparency is a hot topic in health policy right now. For good reason; employers and their employees fork over a large share of their incomes to health care every year, yet most have trouble planning for those expenses because of complex, often obscure pricing...
by Mike Roche | Apr 13, 2021 | Members & Employers
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 outcomes,...
by Melina Kambitsi, Ph.D. | Mar 30, 2021 | Members & Employers
If you have a self-funded health plan, stop-loss insurance (also known as reinsurance) can help protect your organization from high-cost claims – unpredictable claims that are considered catastrophic to the plan. Certain forms of cancer, premature birth, and kidney...
by Jennifer Austin | Mar 16, 2021 | Events by The Alliance, Members & Employers
The Alliance and Business Health Care Group (BHCG) hosted a webinar with several content experts to discuss employee communication strategies, policy and procedures, and other employer considerations regarding COVID-19 vaccination. This is a recap of the virtual...
