Employer Sponsored Health Plans

UPMC Partnership Expands Chronic Disease Medication Adherence

by Hannah Nelson

UPMC Health Plan and Sempre Health’s medication adherence collaboration has expanded its chronic disease management benefits to include diabetes medicines for members of UPMC’s...

How 6 Patient Populations Receive Coronavirus Vaccine Coverage

by Kelsey Waddill

Coronavirus vaccine coverage is a complex subject, as it spans multiple patient populations that typically receive vaccine coverage in different ways, a Kaiser Family Foundation brief elucidated. As...

Employer-Sponsored Health Plans Call for Regulation, Transparency

by Hannah Nelson

Employers called for healthcare price regulation and transparency to ensure employer-sponsored health plan affordability in the annual Pulse of the Purchaser survey conducted by the National Alliance...

Unemployed Turn to Affordable Care Act Health Plans for Coverage

by Kelsey Waddill

After losing their employer-sponsored health plans, many adults are shifting to public and non-group plans, emphasizing the important role that the Affordable Care Act plays in health insurance, an...

UnitedHealthcare Targets Children’s Eye Health, New Vision Benefits

by Hannah Nelson

UnitedHealthcare has introduced added benefits to their Children’s Eye Care Program that will help young people reduce their exposure to blue light and support their overall eye health after...

Pros, Cons of Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements

by Kelsey Waddill

Individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRAs), which have been offered as the alternative to the Affordable Care Act, have negative impacts on low-income New Yorkers, according to a...

Cancer Patients Paid $5.6B Out-of-Pocket Cancer Costs in 2018

by Kelsey Waddill

Cancer patients are paying higher and higher out-of-pocket costs for treatment and, according to the American Cancer Society’s recent report, payer-related costs are the most common contributor...

Employer Sponsored 2020 Out-of-Pocket Costs Were Stable Pre-COVID

by Kelsey Waddill

Employer-sponsored health plans grew more expensive for individuals and families in 2020, the Employer Health Benefits annual Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) survey found. “Conducted partly...

Employer-Sponsored Healthcare Coverage Fell by 3.3 M, 2M Uninsured

by Kelsey Waddill

Employer-sponsored healthcare coverage dropped nearly two percent between late-April 2020 and mid-July 2020, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) report that corroborates a couple...

Private Payers Pay Hospitals 247% of Medicare Reimbursement Rate

by Kelsey Waddill

Private payers are paying hospitals 2.5 times more than the Medicare reimbursement rate and employers have a role to play in rectifying the negotiating process, a recent RAND Corporation (RAND) study...

COVID-19 Amplifies Racial Health Disparities for Coverage

by Kelsey Waddill

Minorities may see a sharper loss in employer-sponsored health insurance than White populations in America, which would drive racial coverage and health disparities even deeper, a recent report from...

UnitedHealthcare Launches Concierge-Style Plan, Free Primary Care

by Kelsey Waddill

UnitedHealthcare and Canopy Health are introducing a new employer-sponsored, concierge-style health plan that incorporates free access to primary care services. “In designing the California...

How States, Employers Control ESI Healthcare Spending Long-Term

by Kelsey Waddill

States, employers, and the federal government must each play a role in supporting sustainable employer-sponsored insurance spending solutions during the coronavirus pandemic, a recent United States of...

New Aetna Health Plan Leverages CVS HealthHUBs, Narrow Networks

by Kelsey Waddill

Aetna is initiating a new employer-sponsored health plan in Kansas and Missouri that will combine a narrow network with CVS Health services, the payer announced. “This plan is just one example...

How to Assess Potential COVID-19 Employer-Sponsored Insurance Loss

by Kelsey Waddill

Coronavirus-related employer-sponsored insurance losses could be loser than initially expected, although it’s still unclear due to a lack of definitive data, according to a report from the Robert...

Verily Launches Tech-Focused Payer for Self-Funded Employers

by Kelsey Waddill

Verily, Alphabet’s life sciences and healthcare subsidiary, and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions have announced that it will launch a payer for self-funded employers called Coefficient Insurance...

Hits to Employer-Sponsored Insurance May Affect Healthcare Jobs

by Kelsey Waddill

If the federal government wants to prevent more healthcare workers from becoming unemployed, it needs to do more to bolster employer-sponsored insurance, pushed a report from FamiliesUSA. Because...

Many Working-Age Americans Face Unstable Coverage, Medical Debt

by Kelsey Waddill

Two out of every five working-age adults in the first half of 2020 had unstable healthcare coverage and a third faced medical debt, a Commonwealth Fund study recently uncovered. The survey is a part...

High Deductible Health Plan Enrollees Need Better HSA Education

by Kelsey Waddill

Although health savings accounts are an important tool for enrollees in high deductible health plans, a large percentage of enrollees in these plans either do not have health savings accounts or do not...