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16 Employer Benefit Trends for 2019 From Mercer Thought Leaders
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/18/2019 - 15:54
- AI everywhere! Healthcare will be the next industry to be transformed by AI.
- Account-based plans create buzz.
- Personalization of health care.
- Value on investment: The new yardstick for benefits will be how they affect employees' perception of their employer.
- Transparency in Rx pricing.
- Getting family-friendly fast.
- Extreme claims get real. A number of factors are driving an increase in both the prevalence and the size of extreme claims
- More stop loss. With the severity and frequency of catastrophic claims, employers will up their stop loss insurance levels and those that don't buy it now will reconsider.
- More outsourcing. HR and health and wellbeing functions will increasingly be outsourced
- Midsized employers doing something really different. While jumbo employers are typically the trailblazers, this year midsized employers will take the lead with a couple of truly radical benefit strat
- Moderate cost growth allows longer-term focus.
- Big things for behavioral health Change is happening in the behavioral health care delivery system.
- Specialty drugs will command attention.
- Rx management gets yet more complicated. PBMs, carriers, pharma companies, and wholesalers will continue to face intense scrutiny regarding profits, delivery models and alignment (or lack of alignment
- Employers mix it up with clinical services.
- The issue of bill coding will surface. As doctors and hospitals become health systems, they are hiring coding experts at an increasingly rapid rate as a means of maximizing reimbursements.
Source: MCOLBlog: A Tour of 2019 Healthcare Predictions
Source URL: http://www.mcolblog.com/kcblog/2019/1/4/a-tour-of-2019-healt...
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