employee healthcare costs
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Mercer: Cost of Health Benefits To Jump 5.4% in 2024
Employers expect health benefit costs to increase 5.4% per employee on average in 2024, new data from Mercer shows. This is due to inflationary pressures and health system consolidation.
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Employer Health Plans Hold the Key To Reducing Healthcare Costs
The major healthcare players have no incentive to bring costs down. Insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other healthcare interests profit by charging higher and higher rates. However, one entity has the scale and incentive to meaningfully lower costs: employer health plans.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer, Employee Benefits
A new kind of CMO: Why your company needs a chief medical officer
Companies in every industry are now hiring a chief medical officer—an executive once found only in healthcare organizations—to implement and oversee programs that optimize employee well-being.
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Want workers to be better healthcare shoppers? Cut them a check.
Researchers examined a program that paid workers between $25 and $500 for using price transparency tools and choosing a lower cost provider for 131 different elective medical services.