Rhode Island established a cost growth benchmarking process to bring greater transparency to the market in 2018. The state also has a first-in-the-nation regulation that caps annual growth in prices paid by commercial health plans, established in 2010.
The digital health explosion has left many employers wondering how to prioritize which bright, shiny new solution to chase, how to discern which solutions are really fool’s gold, and how to get the most from an existing program.
It’s 8pm and, as a supervisor at a grocery store, you’re making sure all employees working the cash registers and self-check-out stands are ready to change shifts and go on
For the past three years, Suzanne Delbanco and other CPR staff have interviewed health care thought leaders as part of CPR’s Listening In (With Permission) podcast. Each new podcast garners
Suzanne Delbanco catches up with Sam Arsenault, Director of National Treatment Quality Initiatives for Shatterproof, on the latest milestones in the work to bring provider quality ratings into the substance
The slow progress in the behavioral health space, especially toward quality and accessibility of care for behavioral health and substance use disorders (BH/SUD), is concerning. While payment reform is spreading
Each day in the United States, over 130 people die from overdosing on opioids. Opioid misuse and addiction have gained recognition as a national crisis negatively affecting public health and
What if people with substance use disorder could have a one-stop-shop for finding high-quality treatment options, including a list of providers in their health plan network? Suzanne checks in with
Why is America’s most common health care challenge the one we are least likely to talk openly about? Ryan Olmstead discusses mental health challenges with Mary Kay O’Neill, MD, MBA,
Listen in as Suzanne shares an intimate conversation with a health policy expert who has survived an opioid addiction. Though anonymous, her story shines a bright and personal light on
Did you know that the U.S. spends over $200 billion on mental health disorders, ranking it as one of the costliest areas of health care, even above heart conditions and
We know behavioral health care is a major cost driver for employers and other health care purchasers, often displaying double digit growth year over year. But did you know that
CPR’s senior project & research manager, Roz Murray, calls Dr. Corey Waller, Physician and Consultant at Complex Care Consulting LLC, to talk about employers’ challenges in identifying substance use disorders
Listen in as Suzanne learns from Mollyann Brodie, Senior Vice President for Executive Operations at the Kaiser Family Foundation, about the public’s thoughts and concerns about the opioid epidemic as well
We know employers and other health care purchasers have a lot on their minds. The cost of specialty pharmaceuticals seems ever increasing and the new political health care environment is
Mental Health Awareness month is coming to a close. Did you do anything to raise awareness? An estimated 46 percent of adults experience mental illness or a substance abuse disorder
