The Alliance® Blog
The Alliance works to provide its employer-members with key information so that they can be the best stewards of their healthcare plans. These blogs range in topics from strategies employers use to control costs, updates on crucial healthcare regulations that impact self-funded employers, and tips on how employers can best utilize their membership.
Self-Funding Insights, Health Policy Updates, Employer Stories, and More
How Employers Can Encourage Healthcare Consumerism
Patients in healthcare are often confused by the healthcare system, unsure where to go or who to trust. In fact, 3 in 4 American patients leave the doctor’s office confused, and do more research, according to a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults. So, if they’re...
5 Ways Self-Funded Employers Can Change the Cost of Healthcare
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...
Obesity in the Workplace: Learn Its Impact and How Employers Can Help Treat It
Obesity doesn’t just influence employees’ waistlines, but also employers’ bottom lines. That is why we at The Alliance want to help employers understand its causes and effects on health – and how their employees and businesses are impacted – to offer best...
New Transparency Trends: 3 Healthcare Problems (And Their Solutions)
There’s growing price transparency concerns among employers whose health care costs – which amounted to $1.2 trillion in 2018 – continue to outpace wages and inflation. More than half of those costs can be attributed to hospitals and physicians. Hospitals account...
5 Key Takeaways from RAND Corp’s Hospital Price Transparency Study
The importance of hospital price transparency has come to the forefront for payers once again. Employer-sponsored health plans cover roughly half of all Americans, account for $480 billion in hospital costs, and their cost has outpaced wages and inflation for more...
The Four Best Benefits of Choosing a Level Funded Health Plan
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...
