Health Payer Intelligence September 26, 2018
About half of employers are experimenting with innovations in health plan design in order to reduce costs and improve quality for beneficiaries.
Just under half of employers participating in a survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) are actively experimenting with innovative health plan designs that aim to foster new approaches to care delivery.
NBGH found that employers expect healthcare costs to rise by 6 percent in 2019 without any efforts to reduce costs. However, employers still expect costs to rise by 5 percent if they incorporate traditional cost containment strategies into their plan designs.
More than a third of employers are concerned about smaller groups of very high-cost claimants, the survey showed. Other pressing challenges include specialty...
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