To combat rising health care costs, more employers are transitioning from providing their employees with comprehensive health benefits to plans that are consumer-driven (fewer covered services, lower premiums, and higher out of pocket spending).
There are some trade-offs here. Slimmer health plans save employers money on health benefit packages, but employees are shouldering larger portions of cost-sharing. Making the switch to a catastrophic-like plan could be a financial burden for workers who frequent the health system. For healthy and higher wage workers, it’s not so much of a problem.
Paladina Health, a subsidiary of DaVita Healthcare Partners, aims to make consumer-driven plans more appealing by providing large employers a pathway to extend to their workers a direct primary care benefit option that guarantees around-the-clock primary care.
The results so far? A win-win for a company’s health and the patient’s health.
Read more about what Paladina Health has to offer here.
