Primary care: can it solve employers' health care dilemma?

Accountable care organizations--an employer POV primer.

The accountable care organization (ACO) has emerged as the centerpiece of postreform initiatives to improve the delivery of quality, cost-efficient care. As the primary partners in delivering ACOs, payers and providers have begun to collaborate on the opportunities presented by the legislation. For employers, however, this new approach to managed health care delivery models will present challen...

Psychosocial Workplace Factors and Healthcare Utilization: A Study of Two Employers

Background While a large literature links psychosocial workplace factors with health and health behaviors, there is very little work connecting psychosocial workplace factors to healthcare utilization.   Methods Survey data were collected from two different employers using computer-assisted telephone interviewing as a part of the Work-Family Health Network (2008-2013): one in the information te...

Obstetrics-gynecology as primary care: a market dilemma.

Job-based health insurance in the balance: employer views of coverage in the workplace.

H istorically, employers have been the primary source of health insurance coverage for working-age Americans and their dependents.Yet according to a recent survey of 453 employers, the job-based health system is under stress.The Commonwealth Fund Supplement to the 2003 National Organizations Study (NOS) finds that double-digit increases in health insurance premiums led employers to shift more o...

Comparative effectiveness research: do employers care? What will they do? What about productivity outcomes?

Recent Federal legislation, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), has launched a comprehensive national effort to conduct and disseminate comparative effectiveness research (CER). As purchasers of health care for employees, dependents and retirees, employers stand to benefit from potential quality and cost impacts of CER. Further, because they can influence patients, p...