by Holly Dooley | Apr 10, 2023 | Members & Employers
The Alliance practices innovative provider contracting to purchase high-value, safe healthcare for our employer-members, their employees and their families. We contract with over 38,000 doctors and healthcare providers across the Midwest. This helps self-funded...
by Deb Kunferman | Feb 13, 2023 | Members & Employers, Uncategorized
Traditionally, healthcare has been paid with a fee-for-service model where providers are paid separately for each service provided. This model can make it difficult for patients and healthcare payers to estimate the total cost prior to seeking care. But alternative...
by Mike Roche | Jul 12, 2022 | Members & Employers
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 healthcare...
by Melina Kambitsi, Ph.D. | May 31, 2022 | Events by The Alliance, Health Policy, Members & Employers
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...
by Melina Kambitsi, Ph.D. | Apr 19, 2022 | Members & Employers
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 will...
