Health
Hospital Price Data Finally Finds Its Users
Transparency rules produced enormous files that consumers never opened. Employers and their advisers did, and the negotiating conversation has changed as a result.
Employers
Health
Workplace Mental Health Programs Face the Spreadsheet
After a spending boom, employers are auditing what their mental health benefits actually deliver, and the results are separating clinical substance from wellness decoration.
Health
The Return of the Company Clinic
Employers battered by health costs are reviving an old idea: putting the doctor inside the workplace, and the modern version is outperforming its ancestor.
Health
Employers Test Subscription Primary Care as Costs Climb
Mid-sized employers, squeezed by renewal increases, are contracting directly with flat-fee primary care clinics and cutting insurers out of the first layer of care.