Modern Healthcare October 5, 2016
More employers are setting up value-based reimbursement and payment arrangements with health insurers and providers to encourage better employee health outcomes and reduce costs, survey data released Tuesday show.
This year, 45% of employers are giving employees access to centers of excellence, or COEs, organizations that have high quality ratings in specialties such as cardiac or orthopedic services and infertility, according to the survey data released Tuesday by risk management and employee benefit consulting firm Willis Towers Watson.
That’s up from just 37% of employers in 2015 who provided access to COEs, the survey of 600 U.S. employers with more than 1,000 employees each showed. Collectively, the companies employ 12.2 million full-time workers in various industries.
Companies like General Electric,...
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