Recent Blogs
2020 Fall Symposium & Annual Meeting Recap
The Alliance hosted their 30th Fall Symposium & Annual Meeting on Thursday, Oct. 1 as on online event. This article recaps the keynote speakers in the latter half of the event, but you can re-watch the event in its entirety here. Employers...
What RAND Corporation’s Hospital Price Transparency Project (RAND 3.0) Means For Employers
On Sept. 18, RAND Corporation and the Employers’ Forum of Indiana released the National Hospital Price Transparency Study (RAND 3.0), which aims to help employers understand the costs they’re paying for hospital services. Employers can use this data to empower their...
Direct Primary Care Webinar: Shared-Site Clinics with The Alliance & Proactive MD Recap
In our third and final Direct Primary Care webinar installment, our own Melina Kambitsi, PhD., hosted Proactive MD’s executive vice president of direct care services, Justin Leigh, to discuss what makes Direct Primary Care so impactful. During the second portion of...
How to Control Costs and Improve Health Care Outcomes Using Payment Reform Strategies
In order to better understand Payment Reform strategies and how they can positively influence health care purchasing, let’s begin by explaining how health care is typically delivered. On a basic level, the traditional health care model utilizes a fee-for-service...
How To Design a Health Benefits Plan That Saves Your Business Money
If you want to design a health benefits plan that saves your business money but don’t know where to start, begin by creating a corporate culture that educates employees on the plan and encourages them to use it. Why? Because you want to influence your employees to...
Direct Primary Care Webinar Part 2 Recap
Lately, many of our self-funding members have expressed interest in starting an on-site clinic or joining a shared-site clinic that delivers Direct Primary Care. After all, Direct Primary Care has become an increasingly hot topic during the pandemic due to its...
Direct Primary Care Webinar Part 1 Recap
The Alliance hosted Dr. Kayur Patel of Proactive M.D. and Dr. David Usher, M.D., of ReforMedicine, for our first of a three-part series on Direct Primary Care June 8. Missed the webinar? You can view it here. What is Direct Primary Care? Direct Primary Care is...
How COVID-19 Is Changing The Cost of Health Care
Primary care has always been the first line of defense in caring for patients and offering the most value for our health system overall. However, its effectiveness has suffered over time, due, in part, to a lack of care coordination, health care access for patients,...
What Is Surprise Billing And How Can It Affect My Business?
What Is Surprise Billing? Unfortunately, it’s a story we’ve all heard. A patient has double-checked their plan to ensure the doctor they’re seeing is an in-network provider and the associated bill will be paid by their health plan. Then, a few weeks later, they...
Blog Authors
Jennifer Austin
Director, Marketing and Product Development, The Alliance
Melina Kambitsi, Ph.D.
Senior VP, Business Development and Strategic Marketing, The Alliance
Kathryn Otto-McLeod
Former Director of Member Services & Innovation, The Alliance
Kyle L. Monroe
Vice President, Network Development & Provider Relations, The Alliance
