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Laurel Pickering, MPH, Describes How Employer Tools Help Employees Become Better Consumers
Laurel Pickering, MPH, president & CEO of the Northeast Business Group on Health, explains that employers are transitioning employees into consumers with the help of "transparency tools" centered around price and quality.
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Laurel Pickering, MPH, of the Northeast Business Group on Health, explains that employers are transitioning employees into consumers with the help of “transparency tools” centered around price and quality. She says although employees were once shielded from the cost and quality of care, they are now becoming increasingly responsible for managing their own healthcare.
Ms Pickering says that employers are using benefit design to encourage employees to make better decisions about their health as well as where they seek services. In addition, employers are removing copays for critical medications and implementing incentives or wellness programs that will motivate workers to become — and stay — healthy.
“Engaging them with incentives is another way of getting them to think more about their healthcare, purchase healthcare better, and actually engage in a way that they haven’t been engaged,” MS Pickering says. “There are lots of things employers are doing right now to help employees be better consumers of healthcare both in the way they manage their health and in the way they shop for benefits.”
Dr Kathy Zackowski Discusses the Importance of Rehabilitation Research and Trials in MS
April 26th 2024Kathy Zackowski, PhD, National MS Society, expresses the inherent value of quality rehabilitation trials for broadening clinical understandings of multiple sclerosis (MS) and bettering patient outcomes.
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Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dr Dalia Rotstein: Physicians Must Be Aware MS Affects People of All Backgrounds
April 24th 2024Dalia Rotstein, MD, MPH, emphazises the importance of awareness that multiple sclerosis (MS) impacts patients from various backgrounds as clinicians think through ways to improve access to care and research efforts in MS.
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Empowering Community Health Through Wellness and Faith
April 23rd 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. In the third episode, Camille Clarke-Smith, EdD, MS, CHES, CPT, discusses approaching community health holistically through spiritual and community engagement.
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Beyond Insulin: The Impact of Next-Generation Diabetes Technology
April 17th 2024Experts explain how new diabetes technologies like continuous glucose monitors are transforming care beyond intensive insulin therapy, offering personalized insights and improving outcomes for patients of all treatment levels.
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