BenefitsPRO August 13, 2019
Katie Kuehner-Hebert

And as usual, companies are looking to a variety of strategies to get that number under control.

Employers are looking at strategies to bend the health care cost curve, such as alternative payment and delivery models including accountable care organizations and high-performance networks.

Corporations are amping up their initiatives to take a bite out of rising health care benefit costs, according to the 2020 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey by the National Business Group on Health.

Top initiatives next year for the 147 large employers polled include implementing more virtual care solutions (51 percent) and devising more focused strategies to deal with high-cost claims (39 percent), while managing prescription drug benefit costs remains a high...

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