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20 Matching News Items

1.  Trends in Healthcare Decision Support
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Dec. 12, 2013
"For any tool to work and help consumers arrive at their desired results -- coverage that meets their benefit and budget needs or an effective resolution to a health concern, for example -- it must be well-designed, easily accessible to users, and actionable at the right stage of the decision-making process. At their core, all decision support tools enable people to take an active role in the management of their healthcare."
2.  Health Plans: A Guide to Leveraging Trends in the Post-Reform Consumer Marketplace (PDF)
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
June 9, 2015
16 pages. "Over the last 15 years many health plans have done B-to-B and B-to-C marketing ever since consumers started purchasing insurance online. But healthcare reform has catapulted these end-users to the forefront, and health plans are now talking directly to them, even when a broker or employer is part of the equation. That means they're putting more energy into health literacy initiatives ... and exploring new ways to attract and educate the large number of uninsured people seeking coverage[.]"
3.  Wellness Program Trends: A Closer Look at Health Coaching
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Apr. 23, 2014
"Experts believe that personal, one-to-one health coaching is an important part of a successful, results-oriented employee wellness program. Why? Because they help people cope with preventable health risks that cost the U.S. healthcare system hundreds of billions of dollars each year."
4.  Consumer-Driven Health Plans Help Employees 'Own' Their Healthcare
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Apr. 27, 2014
"Cigna CDHP customers were nearly 50 percent more likely to complete a health risk assessment, and those with a chronic illness were up to 41 percent more likely to participate in a disease management program than those enrolled in a traditional plan.... Cigna CDHP medical cost trend was 12 percent lower than traditional plans during the first year. Cumulative savings over 5 years of $7,900 per employee can be achieved. Cost reductions were achieved without employers shifting out-of-pocket health expenses to their employees."
5.  Healthcare Benefits in 2017: What Employers Have to Say
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Feb. 19, 2017
"2016 marked a milestone for healthcare consumerism, with the amount of organizations offering HDHPs jumping from 28% four years ago to 39% in last year's survey to 53% in this year's survey.... With this rise in HDHPs came an increase in the number of employees being enrolled in a Health Savings Account [HSA], Healthcare Reimbursement Arrangement [HRA], or Flexible Spending Account [FSA] ... 51.5% of respondents' employees are enrolled in one or more of these plans/arrangements."
6.  How Health Plans Are Becoming More Patient Centric
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Apr. 7, 2014
"Health plans have helped pave the way for consumer-driven healthcare by offering coverage solutions that engage people in the management of their healthcare -- HSA Programs, for example -- as well as providing members with resources to make informed healthcare decisions. Their shift toward patient-centric healthcare, in contrast, has less to do with an insured's role as a healthcare consumer but rather their position at the center of their healthcare delivery. As major payers and care coordinators, health plans will be an increasingly important part of this system."
7.  How Health Plans Can Optimize Social Media
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Mar. 18, 2014
"Social networks are changing the way people manage their healthcare. Many healthcare consumers are using social media as a way to find information and make decisions about their health coverage options. This means they're sharing their experiences with an extended, online network of friends and family -- as well as their healthcare providers, making social networks important venues for health plan member communications."
8.  What TPAs Need to Know About Disease Management Programs
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Mar. 26, 2014
"75% of our healthcare dollars goes to the treatment of chronic diseases ... [M]ore employers are taking a closer look at workplace wellness programs that include disease management services... [D]isease management services can be carried out in different ways depending on the capabilities of the vendor and needs of the employer group. Programs may be software-based or managed by healthcare professionals. [Listed] are some elements of disease management programs TPAs offer[.]"
9.  Using Data to Drive HSA Program Engagement
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Jan. 13, 2014
"[Y]ear after year, more employers offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) program to employees as part of their healthcare benefits options ... a significant number of company administrators will be looking to optimize their 'investment' in their HSA Program -- and turning to analytics to drive their program design and management decisions. Insights derived from data will help them align their companies' goals with their employees' goals more effectively, resulting in more successful employee healthcare benefits programs."
10.  Five Employer Characteristics for Private Exchange Implementation
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Apr. 10, 2014
"The clearest distinction in a private exchange is the ability to offer a myriad of plans and networks as well as ancillary products.... Private exchanges can offer a unique consumer experience, initially during enrollment and then ultimately in supporting employees and their families to manage their health and healthcare needs.... Early experience is showing that consumers that are given a pool of money will tend to spend the money more prudently consistent with their needs and values."
11.  Employer Barriers to Adoption of Private Exchange Model
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Mar. 12, 2014
"[A recent survey] revealed that 45% of employers have implemented or plan to consider utilizing a private exchange for full-time active employees before 2018.... [O]ver 80% of employers consider the following to be barriers to adopting a private exchange-based healthcare benefits model: [1] Immaturity of the private exchange marketplace... [2] Stability or track record of exchange administrators... [3] Limited information about private exchanges... [4] Employee readiness... [5] Stability of cost over time."
12.  Successful Consumer-Directed Health Plan and Wellness Programs Require Employee Education
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
June 3, 2014
"[It's] critical employees understand the ins-and-outs of the health plan as well as the accompanying savings/spending account and wellness initiatives.... Some best practices: [1] Include details about how to meet high deductibles and when the health plan starts paying covered benefits; [2] Specify how and when the savings/spending account gets funded and how employees can manage their funds; [3] Demonstrate the programs in action with clear instructions and examples; [4]Communicate the requirements for earning wellness program incentives[.]"
13.  Private Exchanges and Employer Implementation
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Apr. 22, 2014
"Over half (54.5 percent) of employers report that they are somewhat to very familiar with private exchanges.... [L]ess than 7 percent of these employers are already using exchanges.... [An] Infographic provides an outlook of private exchange implementation among employers, as well as what employers report looking for in a private exchange."
14.  Projections Show HSA Limits to Rise in 2015
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Jan. 25, 2014
"Recent projections are showing HSA contribution limits, minimum deductibles and maximum out of pocket limits will all increase in 2015.... The prescribed data period for calculating the inflation adjustments runs through March. The U.S. Treasury Department is required to publish the inflation-adjusted amounts for the upcoming year for HSAs by June 1 each year."
15.  Building Your Health Plan's Defined Contribution Strategy
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Dec. 16, 2013
"Defined Contribution plans make clear the employer's subsidy for benefits, allowing employees and prospective employees to easily determine the value of the employer's benefit program. This transparency may create the need for variable contribution levels based on employees statuses. It may also require national companies with locations around the U.S. to create a formula that takes into account local medical pricing to ensure an equal contribution amount is provided to employees in different locations."
16.  Employee Notices of Health Insurance Marketplace Due October 1
Healthcare Trends Institute Link to more items from this source
Sept. 24, 2013
"With only seven days left until health insurance marketplaces launch, employers need to act now. Have you sent out your health insurance marketplace employee notices yet? ... Employers, whether they offer health coverage or not, must provide the notice to all current part-time and full-time employees. Employees can receive the notice in writing or electronically and all new employees must receive the notice within 14 days of their start date."
17.  Is This Time Different? The Slowdown in Healthcare Spending (PDF)
The Brookings Institution Link to more items from this source
Sept. 23, 2013
"[The authors] first study trends in a variety of measures of U.S. health care, including personal health expenditures, total health spending, health care prices and quantities, and factor inputs such as employment in the health care sector. While the measurement issues tell somewhat different stories about inflection points, nearly all of them point to a recent decline in health care spending, with the exception of one: the Current Employment Statistics shows no slowdown in health care employment growth."
18.  Cost Not as Big a Barrier to Electronic Records, Survey Shows
California HealthCare Foundation Link to more items from this source
Oct. 23, 2007
Excerpt: The cost of adopting electronic health records remains the largest obstacle to widespread adoption, although cost might be less of a factor, according to the Medical Record Institute's Ninth Annual Survey of Electronic Medical Records Trends and Usage, Health Data Management reports.
19.  Workplace Wellness Done Right: 'Population Health Management' Programs
Healthcare Performance Management Institute Link to more items from this source
Aug. 5, 2013
"While studies show that many of these conditions are preventable, the economic burden of chronic disease in the United States falls in large part on employer-sponsored health plans which cover roughly 150 million workers and includes illness-related direct costs of medical care, as well as indirect costs of lower productivity, higher absenteeism and greater worker turnover. In response to these trends, employers are increasingly turning to health promotion and prevention strategies -- commonly known as Population Health Management (PHM) programs -- that are showing promising results in helping to bend the cost curve."
20.  Study Shows Declining Workforce Health in U.S.
Human Resource Executive Online Link to more items from this source
Oct. 14, 2009
Excerpt: As the healthcare-reform debate continues and the recession lingers on, with only hints of a recovery on the way, new data from the Families and Work Institute shows that the health of employed American workers is trending downward. 'The State of Health in the American Workforce,' a report based on data from FWI's 2008 National Study of the Changing Workforce, shows that only 28 percent of employees today report that their overall health is 'excellent,' down from 34 percent just six years ago.

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