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The Impact of Expanding Pre-Deductible Coverage in HSA-Eligible Health Plans on Premiums
Research found that expanding pre-deductible coverage under employer-led health plans would add few costs to health insurance premiums, while lowering costs for patients.
Expanding Pre-Deductible Coverage in HSA-Eligible Health Plans Benefits Patients
Expanding pre-deductible coverage under employer-led health plans would add few costs to health insurance premiums, according to a research report by the Employer Benefits Research Institute.
Employers Identify Best Practices for High-Deductible Health Plans in New Research From the National Pharmaceutical Council and Gallagher Research & Insights
Webinar highlights new research and steps employers can take to implement better HDHP designs.
High-Deductible Health Plans: Good Practices for Employers
Research highlights good practices for designing high-deductible health plans to help enrollees better maximize the value of their benefits.
Employers Identify Good Practices for High-Deductible Health Plans
Employers can design a smarter high-deductible health plans by following good practices identified in NPC research.
How the Myth of Average Persists in Health Benefits
People are different and their health needs vary. Though differences among patients are common, these differences aren’t always considered in treatment and coverage decisions.
The Myth of Average: Why Individual Patient Differences Matter
NPC's "The Myth of Average" explores how patients, health care providers, insurers, and other decision-makers can better consider individual patient differences when navigating the complexities of…
Better Value, Smarter Deductibles in HSA-HDHPs: Improving Health, Equity & Engagement
NPC and National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions collaborated on an Action Brief highlighting key steps employers can take to enhance their health benefit design approach.
Employers Embrace Opportunity to Increase Patient Access to Preventive Care for Chronic Conditions Through Pre-Deductible Coverage
Expanding pre-deductible health coverage for HSA-eligible plans could benefit millions of Americans suffering from chronic conditions as well as lower health care costs by reducing barriers to…
Employer Uptake of Pre-Deductible Coverage for Preventive Services in HSA-Eligible Health Plans
An NPC-funded study shows many large employers have expanded pre-deductible coverage for medications and health services used to prevent exacerbations of common chronic conditions and would like to…
Savvy Employers Alter Status Quo to Address Drugs, Deductibles and Disincentives for Treatment
Thanks to an IRS rule, high-deductible health plans with health savings accounts can now cover an expanded list of preventive services and drugs before patients meet their plan’s annual out-of-pocket…
A Path of Her Own: Salama Freed, 2020-22 NPC/Duke-Margolis Health Policy Fellow
Salama Freed, PhD, has always wanted to learn about the inner-world of health policy – who shapes it, what drives it and how it gets done. She believes that her path to this experience is through the…
Accumulating Barriers to Care: Double Jeopardy for US Patients
In a column for PharmaBoardroom, Dan Leonard, National Pharmaceutical Council President and CEO, Kimberly Westrich, Vice President of Health Services Research, and Brian Sils, Senior Research…
Do Patient Preferences Align with Value Frameworks? A Discrete-Choice Experiment of Patients with Breast Cancer
The study assessed patient preferences for aspects of breast-cancer treatments to evaluate the usual assumptions in scoring rubrics for value frameworks.
Good News for Patients With High-Deductible Health Plans
In his commentary for Specialty Pharmacy Times, NPC President and CEO Dan Leonard explains how research supported by NPC and conducted by VBID Health demonstrates the health and cost benefits of…
Best Ideas Aren’t Always (or Often) From Washington
In his latest commentary for Chain Drug Review, National Pharmaceutical Council President and CEO Dan Leonard explores the health care concerns and ideas for improvement discussed at recent regional…
U.S. Care Pathways: Continued Focus on Oncology and Outstanding Challenges
A peer-reviewed study assessed changes in development, implementation, and evaluation of care pathways, and reviewed the latest evidence on integration of pathways with value-based care initiatives…
Uptake and Federal Budgetary Impact of Allowing Health Savings Account-eligible High Deductible Health Plans to Cover Chronic Disease Drugs and Services Pre-deductible
This report examines the net federal budgetary impact allowing Health Savings Account-eligible HDHPs to expand pre-deductible coverage to include chronic disease services.
Bringing Patient-Centeredness to Quality Measurement in Health Care
Quality measures can help payers to reward better care, providers to take action to improve care, and patients to make informed decisions about where to seek care. Often, quality measures are focused…