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HR Brew
Nov. 22, 2024
"The percentage of employers with 25 to 99 workers offering healthcare fell to 77% in 2023 from 81% in 1996 ... It decreased to 52% from 65% among employers with 10 to 24 employees, and to 23% from 34% among employers with fewer than 10 employees.... Employer spending on healthcare is expected to surge 8% next year, the highest increase in nearly a decade[.]"
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Healthcare Brew
May 7, 2025
"[E]mployers have increasingly hiked up deductibles and employees' cost-sharing liability for self-funded plans to avoid steep premium increases ... Enter companies like Centivo ... [which] saves money in part by prioritizing primary care, going so far as to launch a virtual clinic with free appointments for members ... Centivo also contracts directly with healthcare providers, intentionally choosing affordable health systems."
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Los Angeles Times
Dec. 15, 2014
"Most businesses ... are reluctant to manage medical providers as they might other key suppliers. It's different on Puget Sound. Boeing and other major employers here, including Starbucks and Costco, have aggressively pushed local hospitals and doctors to meet the kinds of rigorous standards they use to build airplanes or brew coffee. That has nurtured an unusual relationship between employers and medical centers that has affected the way patients are treated for back pain, how they are counseled for depression, even how they schedule doctors' appointments."
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States Taking on Health Care Issues Themselves; Result, Say Experts, Could Be a Compliance Nightmare
CFO
Apr. 20, 2007
Excerpt: [M]ajor changes are already brewing at the state level. According to Ted Nussbaum, director of health-care consulting at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, health-care legislation is pending in about 30 states. Those states, Nussbaum says, are motivated by the fact that they spend billions of dollars a year to cover the medical expenses of the uninsured.
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