by Kathryn Otto-McLeod | Mar 17, 2020 | Members & Employers
Health care is confusing, but by utilizing a shared-site clinic to deliver advanced primary care, an organization can provide its employees with easy-to-access care while reducing their overall spend. In fact, The Alliance advocates for this model so much so, that we...
by Karen Timberlake | Mar 10, 2020 | Health Policy
The Alliance actively pursues value–based payment strategies as one of the four core drivers on the roadmap to high-value health care. The Alliance also supports a robust platform of health policy priorities, in part because federal and...
by Paul Meyer | Mar 3, 2020 | Health Policy, Members & Employers
“Wisconsinites should be able to afford the prescription medicine they need to lead a healthy lifestyle.” That was the sentiment delivered by Wisconsin Governor, Tony Evers, last August when he issued an executive order creating a drug task force to reduce...
by Melina Kambitsi, Ph.D. | Feb 25, 2020 | Members & Employers
As a not-for-profit cooperative of employers and insurance trusts that self-fund their health benefits, The Alliance is pleased to work with many forward-thinking, ethical brokers for health benefits. Most brokers will steer you to a product that’s right for your...
by Melina Kambitsi, Ph.D. | Feb 18, 2020 | Members & Employers
In a new study released by GNS Healthcare, data shows that employers could save hundreds of millions of dollars by steering consumers toward high-quality, low-cost physicians. Using 2017 Wisconsin Health Information Organization (WHIO) claims data, they analyzed 3,760...
by Melina Kambitsi, Ph.D. | Feb 11, 2020 | Members & Employers
There’s been a lot of buzz about self-funding vs. fully insured plans, so let’s discuss the numbers. Health care costs in the US have increased every year since 1960. And according to Nelson Griswold, an employee benefit advisor, family health insurance premiums...
by Karen Timberlake | Feb 4, 2020 | Health Policy
Health care affordability is gaining steam as a topic not just on the presidential debate stage but also among state and federal policy makers. Researchers at Altarum, a nonprofit health care consulting group, decided to dig into the relationship between the relative...
by Kathryn Otto-McLeod | Jan 28, 2020 | Members & Employers
The traditional health care model can be hard to access, tough to navigate, and unnecessarily expensive. But there’s another way you can approach primary health care that makes your employees healthier and helps with your bottom line — advanced primary care. ...
by Kathryn Otto-McLeod | Jan 21, 2020 | Members & Employers
With the new year comes new benefit plans. The Alliance wanted to provide some helpful tips on what can help employers, and employees, get off to a great start. For employers that are new to working with The Alliance or those that would like a refresher on what we do,...
by Beth M. Cubriel | Jan 14, 2020 | Members & Employers
In October, my colleague John Zordani provided an outline of the leading Democratic presidential candidates’ positions on health care reform. While we still don’t know who the Democratic nominee for President will be, President Trump is expected to represent the...
