Employer ACOs Rarely Cut Costs. The Missing Incentive Is the Patient.
A 2019 Health Affairs study of national commercial ACO contracts found no significant reduction in total medical spending over two years. A 2022 analysis of...
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A 2019 Health Affairs study of national commercial ACO contracts found no significant reduction in total medical spending over two years. A 2022 analysis of...
The Small Business Health Care Tax Credit has been around since 2014. It can cover up to half the premiums a qualifying employer pays. That sounds like a...
Value-based insurance design promised to fix a broken incentive. It did half the job. If a diabetes medication prevents a $30,000 hospital stay, the logic...
U.S. per capita healthcare spending sits near $12,900 a year, roughly double the average in comparable developed nations. For American employers, this is...
More than 40 states require insurers to reimburse telehealth visits at the same rate as an office visit. As of late 2024, the Center for Connected Health...
A growing number of self-funded employers are being named in lawsuits by their own employees, and the root cause is a cost-control strategy that promised to...
One in every four dollars spent on employer healthcare delivers no value. That’s the National Academy of Medicine’s estimate, and it covers unnecessary...
Fewer than 8 percent of U.S. adults receive all the preventive services recommended for them. That number comes from a 2018 Health Affairs analysis of CDC...
Employer healthcare costs and long-term disability insurance are connected by the same underlying reality: the health of the workforce. When medical care is...
You have probably seen the slide. The one that says every dollar your company puts into preventive care saves three dollars in future claims. It shows up in...
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