More Employers Join Push for Value-Based Healthcare

More employers are setting up value-based reimbursment and payment arrangements with health insurers and providers to encourage better employee health outcomes and reduce costs.
This year, 45% of employers are giving employees access to centers of excellence, or COEs, organizations that have high quality ratings in specialties such as cardiac or orthopedic services and infertility, according to the survey data released Tuesday by risk management and employee benefit consulting firm Willis Towers Watson.