Health Affairs September 15, 2017
Employers want to know whether payment reforms are an effective strategy for containing costs and increasing the value of the health care they purchase. There is a dearth of evidence on the impact of payment reforms within employer health plans, and there are real obstacles that impede employers from conducting the kind of rigorous evaluations that would produce it. However, employers can play a role in generating and sharing the evidence that they seek.
Employers Face Barriers To Evaluating Their Payment Reforms And Sharing The Results
An increasing number of employers are considering payment reforms as a strategy for improving the value of the employee health care they purchase. Yet employers have little trusted evidence about how well payment reforms...