Health Populi August 26, 2019
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

U.S. employers are tightening their focus on mental and behavioral health, addressing workers’ chronic conditions, emphasizing women’s health, and allocating more resources to digital and telehealth investments, we learn from Optum’s Ten Years of Health and Well-Being at Work: Learning from our past and reimagining the future.

Four in five medium, large and jumbo companies expect their spending on health and wellness programs will increase over the next three years. That spending will have a strong focus on behavioral health services: 9 in 10 employers are concerned with the level of access workers have to mental health services. Companies will prioritize integrating behavioral health into medical care, implementing digital tools, growing provider networks, and implementing virtual visits —...

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Topics: Digital Health, Employer, Insurance, Market Research, Mental Health, Payer, Provider, Technology, Telehealth, Trends, Wellness
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