HealthLeaders Media August 10, 2016
Gregory A. Freeman

The great appeal of telemedicine is that it comes at a lower cost than other care access points, and payers have exhausted other cost efficiencies on the front end.

Having squeezed all they can out of health plan design, employers are now pinning their hopes on telemedicine as the way to bring down their health insurance costs.

Telemedicine is growing rapidly and within a few years will be a routine part of healthcare plans offered by employers, according to the president and CEO of the National Business Group on Health (NBGH), a non-profit association of 425 large employers.

Brian Marcotte says employers have moved away from issues of plan design, pretty much accepting that there is little chance of improvement...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), Apps, CMS, Employer, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Investments, MACRA, Market Research, Medicare, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Pricing / Spending, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Self-insured, Telehealth, Value Based, Wearables
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