Do you advise self-insured employers? Your insights will offer leading, innovative points of view that can guide employers and peers. Join us for this year’s survey!

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Here is a list of some of the biggest funding rounds in the payer/employer space that were announced this month.

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At the MedCity INVEST conference, scheduled for May 21-22 at the Ritz Carlton in Chicago, health benefits in the context of value-based care will be one of several topics of discussion at the boutique healthcare investment event. Register today!

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Do you advise self-insured employers? The 2023 Benefit Consultant Sentiment INDEX offered robust insights and cast a spotlight on the evolving roles of employers as they navigate the changing healthcare landscape. Your insights offer leading, innovative points of view that can guide employers and peers. Join us for this year’s survey!

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A new Business Group on Health survey revealed several key trends for large, self-insured employers. These trends show a rising prevalence of mental health challenges and a decreasing emphasis on virtual health.

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When asked what the key issues influencing benefits strategy are, 80% of employers said competition for talent, 67% said rising costs, 41% said a focus on inclusion and diversity and 39% said increasing mental health problems, according to a recent Willis Towers Watson survey.

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A Northeast Business Group on Health survey, published Monday, found that 26% of employers never identify the needs of employees, nor the “awareness and effectiveness” of their mental health programs. About three in ten respondents don’t have messaging campaigns through social media and internal platforms on mental health.

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ViewFi will power Transcarent’s orthopedic consult solution, which will be part of Transcarent’s surgery care services. Through Transcarent’s app, patients will be able to have a virtual diagnostic consultation with an orthopedic provider in less than two days.

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Employers have a responsibility to support the food as medicine movement and help employees who are food insecure, said Jay Bhatt, managing director of Deloitte Services and managing director of the Center for Health Solutions and Health Equity Institute. He made these comments last week at the MedCity INVEST conference in Chicago.

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Found for Business is an evidence-based obesity care program that prescribes 13 different medications (including GLP-1s) in 60 different combinations. It combines the medication with support from providers, coaching and an app that offers meal and activity tracking. 

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Most employers are looking to maintain their investments in wellbeing programs, according to a survey from Fidelity Investments and the Business Group on Health. However, some areas of wellbeing will be emphasized more than others.

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Amino Health’s $80 million in financing was led by Transformation Capital and Oxford Finance. With the funding, the company hopes to reach and engage more members and grow its partnerships with employers and third party administrators.

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Employers should be looking at obesity as a chronic condition and focus on weight management solutions over weight loss solutions, said Parin Chikani, medical account director for managed markets at Novo Nordisk. He made these comments Tuesday at the Midwest Business Group on Health conference in Chicago.

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Due to fewer employees working onsite, Blue Cross NC’s cafeteria is seeing less activity. The payer has decided to use its cafeteria to prepare meals and then distribute them to more than a dozen nonprofits, which then provide the meals to those in need in their communities.

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Employers are most interested in switching up their vendor partners for wellbeing programs, the Willis Towers Watson survey found. About 55% of respondents said they will make changes to their wellbeing vendor partners in 2023 or 2024, while 12% already did in 2022.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The new solution is called Quantum Health Access, which offers healthcare benefits navigation, provider search, claims assistance, point solution referral and member engagement communications.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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