Health Savings Accounts Help Gen Z Manage High Healthcare Costs
High healthcare costs are keeping young adults from saving for the future, recent data from CITE Research, commissioned by Lively, shows, making the case for health savings accounts...Payers Drive Patient Navigation, Education to Cut Uninsurance
Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) seeks to address uninsurance in the US by developing an education and patient navigation campaign, known as Be Covered, to inform the uninsured of their health...91% of Payers Foresee Alternative Payment Model Activity Increase
An overwhelming 91 percent of payers think that alternative payment model (APM) activity will increase in the future, according to a recent survey conducted by Health Care Payment Learning and Action...Stakeholder Communication Key for Shift to Medicaid Managed Care
North Carolina’s transition from a fee-for-service (FFS) model to Medicaid managed care has faced some challenges, but keeping open communication lines with stakeholders enables the state’s...BCBSA Shares Claims Data for Personalized Treatment Plans for MS
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) shares reports on claims data via the Health of America platform in the hopes that the information might lead to better personalized treatment plans. The...Healthcare Coverage Informs Job Decisions For 50% of Americans
The fear of having no healthcare coverage drives Americans’ decisions regarding employment, according to a recent study by the TransAmerica Center for Health Studies. The study surveyed 3,760...Employers Coalition Takes Up Drug Price Transparency, Price Caps
When it comes to lowering skyrocketing drug prices, employers are making their voices heard on drug price transparency, drug price increase caps, and other price reducing strategies through the...3 Strategies for Payers to Improve Member Medication Adherence
Ensuring members’ medication adherence is a step toward decreasing payers’ overall costs and improving patient outcomes. But medication adherence is highly personal territory that can be...Administrative Complexity Ups Spending Despite Value-Based Care
The American healthcare industry unnecessarily spent over $250 billion on tangled administrative complexity, out of the $760 billion to $935 billion that healthcare professionals consider wasteful each...Sponsored Article
How Quality Fits into Value-Based Care, Organizational Improvement
Value-based care reimbursement strategies represent a shift in focus from the quantity of health services delivered to the quality of those services. Highlighting the importance of quality is ingrained...BCBSTX’s New Medical Centers Seek Multicultural Value-Based Care
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) opened the first of ten medical centers with Sanitas Medical Center (Sanitas), the payer announced last week, with an emphasis on their pursuit of...How Employers Can Raise Financial Wellness and Health Literacy
Twice as many employers are offering workplace financial wellness programs in 2019 than in 2018, yet financial and health literacy still leave something to be desired, revealed a Bank of America...Sponsored Article
