Healthcare DIVE January 14, 2020
Rebecca Pifer

As healthcare costs continue to rise in the U.S., payers and providers are scrambling to find new ways to eke out savings. But often the conversation fails to loop in the entities responsible for insuring more than 55% of the country: employers.

In the eyes of critics, employers — especially the country’s largest — aren’t doing enough to move the needle on medical costs and quality for their employees. But over the past year, some notable employers have partnered with traditional healthcare companies and struck out on their own to provide employees with out-of-the-box options to improve their health.

E-commerce giant Amazon launched a telehealth clinic for its employees in Seattle, and its troika with J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway...

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