"Employer top health benefit priorities for 2021 include ensuring members are engaged in the programs offered and using benefits, along with COVID-19 related initiatives and chronic condition management. Top payment reform strategies being used now or planned in 2021 consist of specialty drug management (89%), centers of excellence/episodes of care (75%) and steerage within networks (69%). Top threats to the affordability of employer-sponsored health coverage consists of specialty drug costs (72%), high-cost claims (64%) and specific diseases and conditions (46%); about 15% of respondents don't see industry consolidation or intermediary conflicts of interest as a threat."

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