Catalyst for Payment Reform September 11, 2018
Over the past several years, many large self-funded employers have been implementing value-oriented strategies in an attempt to bend the rising cost curve and improve care for their populations. Large companies often have employees spread out across the U.S. with some concentrated in specific markets or geographies. Their size and geographic spread leads many of them to work with health plans that have a national reach to administer health care benefits for their populations.
At first, many employers worked with their national health plans to pilot value-oriented initiatives across all of their geographic locations. By implementing a national strategy, they can treat all employees the same and not risk certain employee populations missing out on the potential benefit of a...