Employers are starting to think outside the box when it comes to health care sticker shock.
While still pursuing traditional methods to controlling rising health care costs, such as cost sharing and plan design changes, large employers are increasingly looking to new cost-savings methods and ways to improve outcomes and increase satisfaction for their employees, according to the Large Employers’ 2018 Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey, by the National Business Group on Health.
“As we approach 2020, employers will continue to do all that they can to control costs through demand-side initiatives — implementing consumer-directed health plans, modifying plan design and cost-sharing strategies, and adding price transparency tools,” the authors write. “However, employers are increasingly focusing on areas that address how health care is delivered and paid for — telehealth, on-site clinics, centers of excellence and accountable 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.
