Cost-Containment

Your mental health is more important than your career. Period. So what are you doing to prioritize mental health, individually and for your clients?

The HHS rule, which mandates that health insurers not count copay assistance toward out-of-pocket costs, was struck down last fall, however, it is backfiring on patients with chronic diseases that need expensive drugs.

For patients using tools in the remote patient monitoring category, annual spending is projected to increase by $2,002 for commercial insurance patients.

Although employers choose the plans in order to negotiate lower health care prices, they generally lack market power to do so effectively, so they need to critically assess whether it will help their bottom line, says a new study.

The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, which represents large employers that purchase health coverage, identifies and debunks top hospital inaccuracies around high, rapidly rising, prices, in a new report.

The ERISA Industry Committee, which represents large employers, has come out strongly against Senate Bill 188, while a family health center in Louisville supports the bill, saying it focuses on preserving patient pharmacy choice.