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...
The health care landscape is changing, and employers are driving that change through High-Value Health Care. As a recent PBGH-KFF survey recently uncovered, 87% of employers believe that the current health care system is unsustainable, and now the government is...
The following is a Q&A with Melina Kambitsi, Ph.D., The Alliance’s Senior Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Marketing. Melina spearheaded The Alliance’s self-funded health benefits plan in 2019, which covered 23 employees, proving that...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
