Employers are starting to think outside the box when it comes tohealth care sticker shock.
While still pursuing traditional methods to controlling risinghealth care costs, such as cost sharing and plan design changes,large employers are increasingly looking to new cost-savingsmethods and ways to improve outcomes and increase satisfaction fortheir employees, according to the Large Employers’ 2018 Health CareStrategy and Plan Design Survey, by the National Business Group onHealth.
“As we approach 2020, employers will continue to do all thatthey can to control costs through demand-side initiatives —implementing consumer-directed health plans, modifying plandesign and cost-sharing strategies, and adding price transparencytools,” the authors write. “However, employers are increasinglyfocusing on areas that address how health care is delivered andpaid for — telehealth, on-site clinics, centers of excellence andaccountable care organizations.”
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
