The Role of Employers in Addressing Quality Variation in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

Employers fund more than $1 trillion of the U.S. health care ecosystem, and nearly half of Americans receive health insurance through an employer. Despite the high per capita costs of employer-sponsored insurance, it is plagued by widespread quality variation. Employers have a timely opportunity to catalyze health care improvements, not just for their own members, but systemwide. New data assets are increasingly available to understand — in robust and clinically relevant ways — the quality of care that clinicians provide. These data allow...