Topic: Employers and Unions

The rising cost of providing healthcare coverage for employees has led many organizations to look for alternative solutions for promoting health and well-being.

Research shows that keeping members actively engaged with their healthcare benefits can help improve decision-making, prevent illness, and more.

To reduce medical costs, health plans have begun offering care management programs explicitly aimed at high-risk members and those with chronic conditions.

Forward-thinking organizations can reduce episodic care by implementing programs that approach member healthcare holistically.

The challenge for employer benefit teams is how to implement programs that help employees become more health literate.

Greater financial responsibility leads many to delay or skip care altogether, which can ultimately lead to poorer outcomes and higher costs.

Healthcare expenses continue to rise for employers. Learn how the best care management programs offer employees tools to better navigate and utilize available resources.

For employers, the total cost of providing health benefits, which was $15,013 in 2022, is expected to increase by 5.4% in 2023. Poorly managed chronic disease is one of the top reasons for the increase.

Conifer Personal Health Nurses (PHNs) are clinicians who reach out to employees to offer support and guidance, and to educate them about symptoms and integration of their employer’s care providers into a highly personalized package, connecting members with primary care, labs, physical therapy, nutritionists, classes, and even same day primary care appointments.

The pandemic has highlighted the need for a more patient-centric, holistic mental health system that is more easily accessible for those in need. Now is the time to implement a new, more integrated mental health benefits program.

To proactively address rising healthcare cost, employers must focus on those with difficult to manage conditions. This blog outlines three ways to mitigate the cost crisis in healthcare.

Leveraging health data, employers and health benefits providers can leverage special care management programs to improve employees’ overall health.

Examine strategies for managing healthcare costs through case management, utilization management and utilization review