Health Payer Intelligence April 12, 2021
As the behavioral and mental health crisis grows, employers can leverage preventive care, collaborative care, employee assistance programs, and data to respond.
Most healthcare stakeholders can perceive the impacts of the escalating behavioral and mental healthcare crisis on their own industry segment, but employers have a particularly proximate perspective.
“As an employer coalition, we are the real payers of healthcare,” Cheryl Larson, president and chief executive officer of the Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH), emphasized to HealthPayerIntelligence. “It’s not insurers and PBMs. It’s primarily self-insured public and private employers, and of course, the insurer or carrier payers are managing the fully-insured companies.”
With that level of responsibility, employers cannot ignore the mental and behavioral healthcare epidemic that is plaguing...
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