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...
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...
A lot has happened since the White House issued an executive order in June of 2019, which led to the Hospital Price Transparency Act. In November 2020, the Departments of Labor (DoL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Treasury released the Transparency in...
Employers are switching to self funded health plans quite rapidly, but the swing from fully insured to self funded health plans did not happen overnight. Health care costs have grown steadily for decades, but they have especially ballooned in recent years. 2022...
The Alliance recently held an event with Dr. Jessica Grossmeier to cover the best practices employers can use to engage more healthy employees. After her presentation, Dr. Grossmeier answered questions from the audience. Then Alliance was joined by two employer...
Improving employee engagement in their health and well-being is one of the most important elements to employer health benefits. Why? You can make all the cutting-edge tools and programs on the market available to your staff, but if they don’t use them, it's all for...
Although the pandemic’s future is uncertain, employers are looking at new trends in employee benefits to get the most out of their health plans and support their employees like never before. Here’s this year’s new trends in employee benefits and what it means for...
The debate between fully insured vs. self insured health plans for employers is becoming clear. As enrollment numbers for traditional commercial plans steadily decline, self insured (or self-funded) plans continue to grow. What once was only for multinational...
The mission of The Alliance is to move employer health care forward by controlling costs, improving quality, and engaging individuals in their health. Despite the challenges posed by a (seemingly never-ending) pandemic, our cooperative has made considerable strides...
“The health care market isn’t working. There’s an imbalance of power,” Suzanne Delbanco, Ph.D., said to begin the 2021 Fall Symposium & Annual Meeting. Delbanco, former Leapfrog Group founder and president, is now the Executive Director for Catalyst for Payment...
