A robust, high-quality health benefit program can give employers an edge in today’s competitive hiring market. Beyond attracting and retaining top talent, an employer’s benefit program is a significant percentage of their budget. It is also the foundation of what...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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 healthcare landscape is changing, and employers are driving that change through High-Value Healthcare. As a recent PBGH-KFF survey uncovered, 87% of employers believe that the current healthcare system is unsustainable, and now the government is starting to...
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...
This is a blog recap of a virtual event held on April 26. Click here to view the full webinar recording. Click here to skip to the Employer Resources section. To begin the webinar, Kyle Monroe, Vice President of Network Development & Provider Relations,...
