The report included a series of recommendations for employers. These included:

Ease delivery of care by working directly with provider groups to eliminate the need for several vendors.
Develop integrated behavioral health models that have a single access point for mental health services and consolidate diverse services to holistically treat patients.
Require carriers to provide an action plan to ensure accountability to address waste, fraud, and abuse.
Work directly with providers to develop clinical pathways for specific conditions to support.
Improvements in the standard of care, reduced variation, and elimination of waste and low-value care.
Insist on being at the table during contract discussions with carriers — alongside consultants and other intermediaries — paying special attention to contract terms, especially those that limit data-sharing and do not provide access to actionable data.
Assess current benefit-design planning to address overall workforce health and wellbeing goals, as well as disparities and inequities
Ensure that benefit design encourages access to high-quality services and integrated behavioral health.

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