Quantum Health CEO Zane Burke and Imagine360 CEO Jeff Bak highlighted the significance of the partnership, what it means for their respective businesses, and the industry at large, in response to emailed questions.
One new solution that’s becoming an emerging standard is the Health Payment Account (HPA). HPAs offer employees a line of interest-free credit that employees can use to pay for care expenses up-front.
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
It was expected that the Affordable Care Act would lead to many employers dropping health benefits, but that did not happen, a new report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute found.
The current dual-system model is inefficient, wasteful, and inconvenient. There is a clear need to integrate workers’ comp and medical benefits programs to cut down on costs and alleviate the hassle of dealing with separate care silos. It’s possible, and its time has come.
Employer-sponsored health insurance now costs approximately $12,000 per plan member per year. Accordingly, for many employers, healthcare and health insurance are the second largest company expense after payroll. The Head of Benefits is in charge of this expense and is in the best position to use it for positive change.
The major healthcare players have no incentive to bring costs down. Insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other healthcare interests profit by charging higher and higher rates. However, one entity has the scale and incentive to meaningfully lower costs: employer health plans.
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Talkspace's new product, Talkspace Engage, aims to help employers promote their mental health benefits to their employees. It allows employers to easily share mental health resources and virtual classes led by Talkspace clinicians.
The healthcare navigation market — especially companies targeting self-insured employers — is fairly crowded. You have public companies like Accolade, failed public companies like Castlight Health, now private and merged with Vera Whole Health and a raft of other private companies like Included Health, Rightway, and HealthJoy. Not to mention point solutions for diabetes, MSK, […]
Nearly a quarter of private sector employees don’t have any paid sick days, according to the National Partnership for Women & Families. Providing this benefit will save employers down the line, one expert argues.
The annual open enrollment period is the right time to proactively address common benefits knowledge roadblocks with more in-depth education and communications.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
HealthJoy has raised more than $108 million total. This funding round was led by Valspring Capital, while other investors of the company include Endeavour Vision, CIBC Innovation Banking and U.S. Venture Partners.
Through the new collaboration, Carrum Health is offering GRAIL's cancer test called Galleri as a benefit option for employers. It is an early-detection test for more than 50 types of cancer.
The partnership is with PlanSource, a benefits administration company. By working with PlanSource, Wysa can be offered as a mental health benefit option for PlanSource's network of small to mid-sized employers.
Here are the eight companies selected by professional investors to pitch at the upcoming INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas on September 28.
In an exclusive interview, an attorney at McDermott Will & Emery's Post-Roe practice group answers questions about how Texas' trigger ban laws will impact employers, whether HIPAA protections apply to abortion access and the latest in Washington on rulemaking to strengthen ERISA preemption defense.