Stepping Beyond Wellness, Multiemployer and Public Employer Plans Look To Value-Based Health Care
Brookfield, Wisconsin—With an eye on both their employees’ health and their bottom line, multiemployer and public employer plans are rapidly embracing a new trend—value-based health care (VBHC). This outcome-driven, consumer-centered approach focuses not on the dollars being spent, but on how the dollars being spent can improve employees’ health. It also stresses the importance of keeping healthy employees healthy. A new survey released by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans finds that in the last year, the number of multiemployer and public employer plans that