Mercer: 7 Employer Healthcare Strategies and Their Importance to Large and Mid-sized Employers

  1. Monitoring/managing high-cost claimants: 48% very important; 32% important
  2. Focused action to manage cost for specialty pharmacy: 38% very important; 33% important
  3. Focused strategy for creating a culture of health: 35% very important; 33% important
  4. Improving patient empowerment through advocacy
  5. shared decision-making
  6. multi-channel navigation
  7. etc.: 16% very important; 32% important
  8. Focused strategies for behavioral health: 17% very important; 27% important
  9. Offering employees more plan or benefit options with decision support tools: 17% very important; 26% important
  10. Addressing healthcare affordability for low-paid employees: 20% very important; 22% important
Notes: Percentage of employers with 500 or more employees, who rated strategies as "very important" or "important" in the next 5 years, according to the annual Mercer "National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans 2019"

Source: Mercer, October 28, 2019 - https://www.mercer.com/newsroom/mercer-survey-finds-us-employers-shifting-to-in…

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