While growth in health costs stays flat, companies are employing more virtual care, innovating primary care, and seeking solutions to specialty drug costs.
Taking on the risk of underperforming cost and quality targets, a CFO deals with health care payers and analyzes operations across a 215-facility network.
As core strategies for containing employee health-care costs diminish in effectiveness, companies need fresher approaches.
Self-funded employers can significantly reduce their health-care spending through alternative payment arrangements for health-care services.
Save the good and revise the bad, says Brian Marcotte of the National Business Group on Health
An ongoing shift to the "capitation" model for reimbursing medical providers leads them to classify more injuries as work-related.