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Affordable Health Benefits Are a Top Driver of Employee Satisfaction

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Affordable Health Benefits Are a Top Driver of Employee Satisfaction

Employers are wise to routinely seek the right combination of employee benefits to attract, engage, and retain top talent—all while staying within budget. Although outside forces may try to influence these decisions, the best way to create a winning benefits package is to engage directly with employees.

By Vitori Health

| August 4, 2024

How Old Are You? Does Your Biological Age Matter?

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How Old Are You? Does Your Biological Age Matter?

Consumers are spending hundreds of dollars on self-administered tests that claim to quantify their cellular health and biological age. While doctors are cautious about the value of such tests, it’s important to acknowledge the underlying desire to improve one’s health based on the results.

By Vitori Health

| July 2, 2024

How to Help Employees Beat Medical Debt and Financial Stress

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How to Help Employees Beat Medical Debt and Financial Stress

Everyone struggles with finances occasionally, but those with medical debt bear a heavier burden than most. KFF, an independent source for health policy research, reports that “People with medical debt are much more likely than those without such debt to show other signs of financial vulnerability.”

By Vitori Health

| May 21, 2024

Survey Says… Employees Want Lower Health Plan Costs and Better Benefits

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Survey Says… Employees Want Lower Health Plan Costs and Better Benefits

Americans have long struggled with a dysfunctional healthcare industry and legacy insurance plans that cost too much and don’t deliver. Instead of focusing on what’s wrong with the status quo, a recent study asked employees to prioritize what future health plans should offer.

By Vitori Health

| April 18, 2024

How Rising Health Care Costs Drive Wage Stagnation and Inequality

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How Rising Health Care Costs Drive Wage Stagnation and Inequality

A comprehensive JAMA study analyzing 32 years of data suggests that health premiums for employer-sponsored health benefits have been rising faster than wages. These costs are often passed on to employees, further reducing or stagnating wages and increasing income disparities by race, ethnicity, and wage level.

By Vitori Health

| April 5, 2024

Looming Employer Litigation: Is J&J the Canary in the Coal Mine?

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Looming Employer Litigation: Is J&J the Canary in the Coal Mine?

There is looming fiduciary litigation risk for employers who continue to passively patronize the legacy insurance and PBM industry with its long, public history of predatory practices. Johnson and Johnson leaders who were individually-named fiduciaries in a recent class action lawsuit can attest to this.

By Vitori Health

| February 19, 2024

Americans Struggle to Pay for Health Care. Vitori Can Help.

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Americans Struggle to Pay for Health Care. Vitori Can Help.

The results from the Commonwealth Fund 2023 Health Care Affordability Survey are grim. American consumers continue to struggle with unsustainably high costs and inadequate coverage. Unsurprisingly, nearly 40% forgo or delay needed care and don’t fill prescriptions to avoid risking financial ruin.

By Vitori Health

| October 30, 2023

Privacy or Cover-up? Hiding Behind HIPAA to Inflate Insurance Premiums

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Privacy or Cover-up? Hiding Behind HIPAA to Inflate Insurance Premiums

When the HIPAA Privacy Rule was enacted in 1996, its intent was to protect personal medical records and health information. This goal has since been weaponized by legacy health insurance carriers who withhold data from fully-insured plan sponsors to obscure their justification for higher premiums.

By Vitori Health

| May 7, 2023

Insulin Cap May Drive PBMs to Keep Profits by Hiking Employer Premiums

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Insulin Cap May Drive PBMs to Keep Profits by Hiking Employer Premiums

Medicare patients cheered when the Inflation Reduction Act capped monthly insulin costs at $35. Then drug manufacturers controlling 90% of the market set this $35 cap for everyone by bypassing the PBM middlemen. To protect their black box of profits, insiders expect PBMs to raise employer premiums.

By Vitori Health

| April 28, 2023

High Costs Delay Care: Give Employees Free MD Visits, Rx, Surgeries

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High Costs Delay Care: Give Employees Free MD Visits, Rx, Surgeries

Mary B. skipped appointments and delayed chemotherapy when her cancer returned. Steven L. reduces refills by taking his thyroid medication every other day instead of daily. Others cancel needed care because they can’t afford time off from work and the additional costs of childcare and transportation.

By Vitori Health

| March 21, 2023

Billions Spent Pushing Low Value Drugs Directly to US Consumers

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Billions Spent Pushing Low Value Drugs Directly to US Consumers

The healthcare industry continues to feed its addiction to obscene profits instead of better, more affordable patient care. While Americans are bombarded with relentless direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) pushing dubious drugs to an unwary public, health plan sponsors can provide a much-needed antidote.

By Vitori Health

| February 8, 2023

7 Burning Questions About Commercial Prices for Health Care Services

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7 Burning Questions About Commercial Prices for Health Care Services

Health Affairs has launched a timely analysis of physician, hospital, and other health care provider prices in private-sector markets and their impact on overall spending. We applaud this pursuit of definitive answers but until such truths are revealed, employers won’t have any cost relief any time soon.

By Vitori Health

| January 31, 2023

How to Boost Employee Retirement Benefits by Slashing Health Care Costs

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How to Boost Employee Retirement Benefits by Slashing Health Care Costs

From stagnant wages to crushing medical expenses, employee net income has plummeted, preventing American workers from saving adequately for retirement. Pending legislation seeks to alleviate this crisis while a growing number of employers are boosting retirement benefits by reducing health care costs.

By Vitori Health

| December 29, 2022

Annual Health Care Lobbying Rises 70% to a Whopping $714 Million

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Annual Health Care Lobbying Rises 70% to a Whopping $714 Million

From targeting the Affordable Care Act to clamoring for COVID relief funds, annual federal healthcare lobbying expenditures have risen a staggering 70%. Nearly $714 million has been spent influencing legislation to favor the industry and maintain obscene profits. Who’s spending all this money?

By Vitori Health

| December 17, 2022

What Good is Health Insurance That Robs Benefits and Hurts Health?

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What Good is Health Insurance That Robs Benefits and Hurts Health?

Multiple studies affirm that millions of Americans are underinsured or completely uninsured. These grim results include the 54% of the population covered by employer health plans. While outrageous healthcare and premium costs are part of the problem, it’s clear employers need to step up and do better.

By Vitori Health

| December 10, 2022

How to Fund Competitive Benefits to Attract and Retain Talent

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How to Fund Competitive Benefits to Attract and Retain Talent

In the ongoing battle for talent acquisition and retention, 2 in 3 employers plan to expand their employee benefits program in the next 12-18 months. Yet 8 in 10 say out-of-control health care costs impede their ability to stay competitive. Is it really possible to compete without overspending? Absolutely!

By Vitori Health

| November 30, 2022

More Patients and Providers Value Telehealth for Mental Health Care

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More Patients and Providers Value Telehealth for Mental Health Care

According to the National Institutes of Health, telehealth services have been around since the 1920s using the limited technologies of their time. A century later, virtual care has become commonplace thanks to the global pandemic... and it is here to stay, especially for mental health services.

By Vitori Health

| September 27, 2022

Insurer Profits Are Strong While Patients Struggle to Pay Bills

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Insurer Profits Are Strong While Patients Struggle to Pay Bills

While patients grapple with runaway costs and the indignities of the U.S. healthcare system, the largest health insurance firms posted solid year-over-year earnings growth for the first half of 2022. In fact, experts don’t think they’ll struggle at all despite worrisome economic conditions.

By Vitori Health

| September 2, 2022

Unethical and Illegal: Cancer Centers Are Still Hiding Drug Prices

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Unethical and Illegal: Cancer Centers Are Still Hiding Drug Prices

Consumers cheered when the Hospital Price Transparency rule took effect in January 2021, requiring that facilities publish their payer-specific negotiated rates for drugs and services. Despite the positive news, there remains a blatant lack of compliance that continues to keep patients in the dark.

By Vitori Health

| August 24, 2022

Controversial PBM Business Practices to be Exposed by FTC Inquiry

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Controversial PBM Business Practices to be Exposed by FTC Inquiry

In a unanimous and bipartisan decision, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will investigate the secretive practices of six of the largest Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) in the country. Diverse stakeholders are hopeful this action will unravel years of corruption and reduce prescription drug prices.

By Vitori Health

| July 7, 2022

Who Benefits the Most from Rising Drug Rebates? It’s Not Patients.

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Who Benefits the Most from Rising Drug Rebates? It’s Not Patients.

A study published in JAMA Health Forum reveals that pre- and post-sale rebates from prescription drug manufacturers to commercial health plan sponsors are steadily increasing. Far from reducing out-of-pocket expenses for patients, this convoluted backroom strategy actually makes things worse.

By Vitori Health

| June 15, 2022

US Has World’s Highest Health Care Costs, Lowest Life Expectancy

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US Has World’s Highest Health Care Costs, Lowest Life Expectancy

Most would agree with the common adage that you get what you pay for, but that’s not the case when it comes to paying for healthcare in America. U.S. spending per capita is up to four times higher than other wealthy countries and yet shockingly, we have the absolute lowest life expectancy of them all.

By Vitori Health

| April 6, 2022

Credit Bureaus to Remove 70 Percent of Medical Debt from Personal Reports

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Credit Bureaus to Remove 70 Percent of Medical Debt from Personal Reports

Medical debt is devastating the credit integrity of American consumers. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB) has taken steps to mitigate this doom loop and the three major credit reporting agencies are now taking action as well, no doubt in response to a greater focus on medical debt.

By Vitori Health

| March 30, 2022

$88 Billion in Medical Bills on Credit Reports Creates Consumer Doom Loop

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$88 Billion in Medical Bills on Credit Reports Creates Consumer Doom Loop

A report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) estimates that consumer credit reports include $88 billion in medical debt as of June 2021. The cause is a “complicated and burdensome” medical billing system that creates hard-to-fix errors that increase patient debt and reflect poorly on credit scores.

By Vitori Health

| March 8, 2022

FTC Probe of Pharmacy Benefit Managers Stalls after Tie Vote

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FTC Probe of Pharmacy Benefit Managers Stalls after Tie Vote

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have done almost nothing over the past decades to protect market competitiveness and consumer interests in healthcare. Employers continue to grapple with ever-rising plan costs as members bear the brunt of fewer healthcare options at a higher cost.

By Vitori Health

| March 2, 2022

Hospital Profit Greed is Crushing Nurses and Decimating the Profession

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Hospital Profit Greed is Crushing Nurses and Decimating the Profession

In the early days of COVID, America’s nurses were rightly celebrated as heroes. Many nurses had hoped that such long overdue recognition might lead to needed reforms, but that optimism seems to have faded. In fact, nurses are leaving hospitals in droves. Some are even abandoning the profession.

By Vitori Health

| February 3, 2022

Judge Orders Uncharitable Nonprofit Hospitals to Pay Taxes

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Judge Orders Uncharitable Nonprofit Hospitals to Pay Taxes

Many school systems rely on property taxes for most of their budget. When a school district in Chester County, Pennsylvania challenged the charitable results of three nonprofit hospitals owned by Tower Health, they exposed the unethical practices that allow many nonprofit hospitals to beat the system. The school district won.

By Vitori Health

| January 26, 2022

Consumers Paid $1.6 Billion More for 7 Drugs with No Proof of New Benefits

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Consumers Paid $1.6 Billion More for 7 Drugs with No Proof of New Benefits

2020 was a very good year for pharmaceutical manufacturers. According to an independent analysis by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), Americans spent an additional $1.67 billion on seven drugs whose price increases were not supported by new or improved clinical evidence. And this was after pharmaceutical rebates and other concessions!

By Vitori Health

| December 1, 2021

Why Aren’t Providers Being Paid Fast, Accurately, and Fairly?

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Why Aren’t Providers Being Paid Fast, Accurately, and Fairly?

Payment disputes between insurers and providers are nothing new. Even with their secret, self-serving network contract arrangements, these relationships have been perpetually uneasy.

By Vitori Health

| November 2, 2021

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