Tricia Beckmann Discusses Health Care Benefit Cuts With Modern Healthcare

Faegre Drinker Consulting principal Tricia Beckmann spoke with Modern Healthcare on the impending health care benefit cuts from insurers.

The article discusses how vendors are paying even closer attention to their own data and sharing results with their insurer partners
as they reconsider where to invest. Insurers are eyeing the most effective approaches as they prioritize improving margins over growing membership.

Beckmann said health insurers may become more targeted with other emerging supplemental benefits next year by only offering them to specific populations that have generated stronger results.

“The vendors that will be able to succeed are the ones that can really work with plans to make investments in smart ways and may be willing to pilot and collect the data story that plans need to understand the cost avoidance and the star ratings impacts,” said Beckmann.

The full article is available to Modern Healthcare subscribers.