If you advise self-insured employers on healthcare benefits, your expert insights will help provide a comprehensive perspective of the state of healthcare benefits for employers in our second annual survey, the 2024 Benefit Consultant Sentiment THE INDEX.

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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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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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Consultants are spending more time evaluating vendors and parsing options in growing areas such as mental health, inclusive family planning and chronic care, according to “The 2023 Benefit Consultant Sentiment Index” conducted over the summer in partnership with Quantum Health.

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Experts suggest that the healthcare benefits landscape is evolving rapidly. Tell us whether you agree or disagree and what you think may be driving these changes. Your participation in this research will ensure the report results will be a valuable resource for you and the healthcare industry as a whole.

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Transcarent wants to transform the digital pharmacy benefit experience, enabling self-insured employers and their staff to make more informed choices.

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Historically having worked with Medicaid and Medicare Advantage populations, Uber Health is now expanding its services to self-insured employers. The company made the announcement at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas.

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Employee health benefits and consumer-focused digital health are the themes of the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas, scheduled for September 28, in collaboration with Health Wildcatters. Register today.

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As they seek to support their staff, self-insured employers are turning to innovative programs to balance evidence-based programs with the need to manage healthcare costs.

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Transcarent is the latest entrant in the world of healthcare unicorns announcing a $200 million Series C investment round led by Kinnevik and Human Capital. Other investors in the round included top health systems.

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Livongo’s founder has created a new care navigation venture because he believes that both the experience that people undergo as they look for care and the level of risk that vendors are willing to take when they work with self-insured employers leave much to be desired.

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As stakeholders in the healthcare industry figure out how to navigate value-based care, the use of direct contracts between providers and companies is one option that can be fraught with challenges. Here’s an overview of some of them.

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The company clearly knows how to create efficiencies in areas where there previously were none, and analyze and activate on its abundance of consumer data. Those two qualities are in high demand in the health care sector.

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The vast majority of working Americans get health insurance through their employer and employers can adopt various strategies to move the needle in healthcare.

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Congress has passed legislation legalizing the importation of prescription drugs several times in the past 20 years, but both Democratic and Republican administrations have opted not to implement it.

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Moderate cost trends in the large-employer market seemingly contrast with those in the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplaces.

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DoctorGlobe, which serves members and sponsors of self-insured employer health plans, displays patient out-of-pocket responsibility rather than the price providers bill the employer for.

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