The Alliance recently sat down with Michelle Golden, Executive Director of Human Resources and Public Relations at the Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District, to ask what advice she would offer public employers that are making changes to their health benefits....
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...
It’s peak legislative season, which means a lot of proposed bills are being reviewed and discussed at both the state and federal levels. We aim to keep our employers in the loop when it comes to trending health policy topics and legislative proposals. As of the...
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...
Since the onset of the pandemic, price transparency has been one of the hottest healthcare trends, and we’ve kept close watch. (After all, Transparency isn’t just a healthcare trend, it’s one of our four core drivers of High-Value Health Care.) However, as 2021...
Boosting your employee mental health benefits this holiday season may be a good idea; although it's the time of year for Holiday cheer, there's a good chance that some of your employees are feeling stressed out right now. One in five people experience a mental...
Employer health plans have new requirements due to provisions from The Consolidated Appropriations Act. The continual rise of health care costs have sparked the bi-partisan price transparency regulations for health care providers, third-party administrators, and...
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...
Price transparency is a hot topic in health policy right now. For good reason; employers and their employees fork over a large share of their incomes to health care every year, yet most have trouble planning for those expenses because of complex, often obscure...
