Expanding Access With Direct Primary Care
Direct Primary Care, also known as concierge healthcare, has introduced a fresh perspective to the way employers are accustomed to providing care. The model works by directly connecting the patient to the healthcare provider. This effectively cuts out the increasing premiums, claims and overall headaches …
How Telemedicine Can Transform Your Health Benefits For Employers
With the COVID-19 pandemic keeping many employees indoors, telemedicine has emerged as a convenient for employers to expand access to quality healthcare for their workforce. In 2018, a survey by the Business Group on Health revealed that only 52% of employers believed in virtual care …
Expanding Access to Care is Vital in 2021 and Beyond
When looking to exercise health benefits provided by their employers, employees will often ask about the ways in which they’ll be able to access this care. The COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasized the need for this process to be simple and efficient, as it ultimately …
Infographic: THB’s Telehealth Growth Analysis
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What do the numbers 600, 50, and 90,500 all represent? These are all multipliers and raw growth numbers for the surge in demand for telemedicine access during the onset of the pandemic in the United States. Take a look at AHIP's breakdown of the numbers and …
The Explosive 19000% Growth of Telemedicine
In a little less than a calendar year, telemedicine has quickly taken over as a preferred method for not only obtaining primary care, but specialist visits as well. …
Accessing Employee Health Benefits During the Pandemic
When looking to exercise health benefits provided by their employers, employees will often ask about the ways in which they’ll be able to access this care. The COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasized the need for this process to be simple and efficient, as it ultimately …
Infographic: Growth of Telemedicine During COVID-19 Pandemic
What do the numbers 600, 50, and 90,500 all represent? These are all multipliers and raw growth numbers for the surge in demand for telemedicine access during the onset of the pandemic in the United States. Take a look at AHIP's breakdown of the numbers and …
3 Myths About Self-Funded Insurance
It's commonly said that self-funded insurance is best suited for large firms. There are some inherent benefits to self-funding for larger firms — it's easier to predict costs with more data, and more workers creates a bigger pool to cover risk — but it's by …
How to Build a Self-Funded Health Plan
Some employers may have held off on self-funding a health plan because they felt they were too small to service and couldn't do it on their own. However, transitioning from a traditional plan to a self-funded plan doesn't have to be a solo process. While …
Help Employers Overcome Their Two Biggest Health Care Data Challenges
“You get what you pay for” might hold true when it comes to sneakers or computers, but not for health care. Relative to other high-income countries, the United States spends nearly twice as much on health care yet has the lowest life expectancy, the highest …
