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Supporting Non-Hospital Birthing Options: Employer Strategies to Improve Quality
Faced with unacceptable results, employers are looking for pathways to improve maternal health care quality, affordability and the overall patient experience.
6 Things Every Employer Should Know About Their Pharmacy Benefit Manager
An industrywide lack of transparency, coupled with complex and often-confusing policies and contract terms, has opened the door to PBM profiteering.
Advice from a Purchaser Who Took on Health Care’s Status Quo and Won
Dig into the data. Read the fine print. Follow the money. That’s Marilyn Bartlett’s advice to employers and purchasers struggling to contain soaring health care costs and looking to gain greater transparency from plans, third-party administrators (TPAs), pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and brokers.
What the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Will Mean for Employers
The current COVID-19 public health emergency declaration has now been in place for more than two years – since January 2020. While a new wave could cause its extension, it will most likely end this summer.
5 Policies to Create a Fair Health Care Market
This week, actuaries with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid projected health care spending will grow to reach almost $6.8 trillion by the year 2030 and consume nearly 20% of the country’s gross domestic product, or one in every five dollars spent.
What the Texas Ruling on the No Surprises Act Means for Employers
Last week, a federal district judge in Houston was the first to rule on one of the cases and sided with plaintiffs – the Texas Medical Association– effectively upending a vital portion of the rule implementing the decision.
What the Biden Administration’s Drug Pricing Reforms Mean for Employers
Policy specialists taking part in a recent PBGH roundtable on drug costs noted the reforms continue to enjoy broad, bi-partisan support and will help address a top concern of the American people in an election year.
Employers Are Driving Innovations in Primary Care
Large employers are increasingly working with existing direct contracting partners and new vendors to enhance primary care, which includes, among other things, the integration of behavioral health care.
5 Federal Policies for Employers to Watch in 2022
With the country in its fifth wave of coronavirus cases and hospitals full to the point of breaking, the ongoing pandemic clouds and shapes the health policy landscape.
Looking Toward the Horizon: Top 7 Health Care Trends for Employers in 2022
At the recent PBGH year-end roundtable, noted health care futurist Ian Morrison discussed key health care trends that both he and PBGH believe will be most relevant to purchasers in the year ahead.
