More than 34 million people, including nine million children, lack reliable access to enough food to live active, healthy lives.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) of 2021 mandates employer access to new and critically important insights into the prices they’re paying for employee health care services.
With the pandemic’s grip finally easing, employers are shifting their focus toward key objectives that can support sustained improvements in health care quality and meaningful reductions in cost.
A new survey of U.S. employers underscores the widening damage done by rising health care costs. Nearly 75% of those surveyed say health care expenses are squeezing out salary and wage increases.
The PBGH Innovate Blog features articles written by PBGH and other experts about PBMs and drug-price reform, health care market consolidation and the high prices it brings, efforts to lower health care costs, expanding access to advanced primary care and more. Here, the top five blogs of 2022.
In the courtroom and in the field, provider interests are continuing their full-court press to undermine elements of the No Surprises Act, federal legislation enacted to shield patients, payers and purchasers from exorbitant and unexpected out-of-network medical bills.
The ability to effectively collect a range of data points about patients and the care they receive is essential.
Without congressional action, employers will be required to charge employees more to access telehealth services, creating a barrier to care.
Outlined here are six possible implications of the election that large employers and purchasers – who provide health benefits for more than half the country – should watch.
A new report presents five lessons to support the long-term use of telehealth services as a tool to deliver high-quality virtual care.