HealthIT Answers April 1, 2021
On the latest episode of The Scope with Dr. K, Dr. Lawrence Kosinski and his guest, Elizabeth Mitchell, discuss how self-funded employers are seeking improved access to higher quality healthcare for their employees.
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Mitchell is currently the President and CEO of the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH), which focuses on mobilizing healthcare purchasers, elevating the role and impact of primary care, and creating functional healthcare markets to support high-quality affordable care/measurable impacts on outcomes and affordability.
“[Self-funded employers] are increasingly prepared to intervene in the care delivery system and more direct purchasing because, frankly, the people they hired to do it on their behalf have let them down,” said Mitchell, who previously served as the...