Almost all large employers plan to offer telehealth in 2018, but will employees use it?

Healthcare IT News September 18, 2017
Bill Siwicki

Telehealth utilization is on the rise, employers have a long way to go to get more staffers onboard.

Faced with another 5 percent increase in healthcare benefit costs, a growing number of large U.S. employers plan to focus more on how healthcare is delivered and paid for while still pursuing traditional methods of controlling expenses, such as cost-sharing and plan design changes, according to an annual survey by the National Business Group on Health.

As a result, more employees will have access to broader healthcare services including telemedicine, centers of excellence and onsite health centers during open enrollment while not experiencing major increases in their costs, the business group said.

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