A survey from The Leapfrog Group asked employers to give their health plans an "A" through "F" letter grade. From those letter grades, Leapfrog calculated the health plans’ average Grade Point Average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale. Health plans received a 2.29 GPA in 2022, a slight decrease from Leapfrog’s prior survey in 2020, which had a 2.57 GPA.
The $58 million funding round was led by Portage and included participation from PruVen Capital, Wing Venture Capital and others. With the funding, Angle Health plans to expand into additional markets and grow its membership.
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
The report was commissioned by Wysa, a company that created an AI chatbot for mental health support. It found that 40% of working adults suffer from moderate to severe anxiety and/or depression. Many of these employees would prefer talking to an app about their struggles than someone in their workplace.
The new solution is called Quantum Health Access, which offers healthcare benefits navigation, provider search, claims assistance, point solution referral and member engagement communications.
The top strategies to support mental health issues are offering coverage for telebehavioral health services, providing onsite or virtual employee assistance programs and providing access to digital behavioral health support, a survey of 455 employers found.
The 10% increase is the largest in almost 15 years, the Willis Towers Watson survey found. Most of the insurers, or 75%, blamed the overuse of care for the rise in medical costs.
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Moving to value-based care models isn't easy. But payers may be in the best position to make this change, according to the Business Group on Health. Employers, meanwhile, can encourage their employees to receive care from providers participating in value-based care.
Almost 40% of employers made changes to their retiree healthcare benefits in the last three years, while another 63% plan to in the next three three years, the Willis Towers Watson survey found. Some are looking to replace their traditional group plan offerings with individual insurance through a private marketplace.
Overall spending by employers and employees on mental health services as a percentage of total spending rose from 6.8% in 2013 to 8.2% in 2020, the report found. The use of the mental health services also increased, especially in outpatient settings.
The MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas, scheduled for September 28, will zero in on digital health topics and trends in the context of employer and employee healthcare concerns.
The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.
A blended navigation model that includes a transformed pharmacy benefits offering is the industry’s best opportunity for overall cost reduction in an employer space that desperately needs it.
Executives at large companies feel that the cost of providing employee health benefits will become unsustainable within the next decade, a new survey shows. They want the government to play a bigger role in providing coverage and lowering costs.
The new joint venture will bring K Health's artificial intelligence-driven technology to the consumer, employer and insurer markets. The solution enables patients to understand their symptoms and connect with a doctor if needed.
A subsidiary of Northwell Health has collaborated with the virtual care company to offer businesses a Covid-19 screening tool for their workers. The tool helps identify employees who may have been exposed to the new coronavirus or those showing symptoms of the disease and suggests next steps.
Mayo has joined forces with Premise Health, a company that provides care services to large employers. As part of this collaboration, employees of these large companies — otherwise known as Premise members — and their dependents can access Mayo Clinic services.