As payers explore innovative ways to improve beneficiary engagement and satisfaction, they may wish to consider adding enhanced consumer wellness benefits to their health plan offerings.
Health plans...
As payers try to ease the rising costs of prescription drugs, which account for 10 percent of national healthcare spending, they may wish to turn to the generic drug market to help curb unnecessary...
Medicare Advantage (MA) market data from A.M Best and the Kaiser Family Foundation reveals that the MA market has remained profitable and provides financial opportunity, but payers looking to enter...
In an increasingly competitive health insurance environment, payers that can successfully increase consumer engagement and beneficiary satisfaction will be best positioned for success.
David Biel, the...
The top payers with the highest enrollment numbers for Medigap, Medicaid, and Medicare Advantage (MA) are a unique mix of some of the largest commercial payers as well as smaller to mid-size insurers,...
Payers have been increasingly challenged to manage the high cost of healthcare while lowering the premiums their beneficiaries pay. Creating balanced risk pools that benefit medically complex...
Healthcare spending in the US continues to grow steadily across all beneficiary segments and healthcare payers.
2015 data from CMS, the CDC, and the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) indicates that...
Effective population health management and comprehensive preventive care open the door to new opportunities that maximize payer spending, raise care quality, and slow the progression of costly chronic...
The upward trajectory of US healthcare spending doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon, leaving payers, providers, and beneficiaries wondering how to control costs while maintaining a high...
Payers in both the private and public sectors require new strategies that offset the rising cost of prescription drugs.
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are professionals that administer prescription...
Reducing healthcare spending is a multi-faceted challenge for payers that requires creative and innovative strategies like offering a wide range of preventive healthcare services in health...
Health savings accounts (HSAs) have been widely discussed as lawmakers consider policy reforms, at the federal level, and have become a fixture in conversations about healthcare spending among payers...
Health insurance enrollment technology is designed to offer payers convenience, cost savings, and administrative ease-of-mind when it comes managing beneficiaries enrolled in health plans.
Many...
