How to Choose a Care Navigation Program That Improves Healthcare Outcomes and Offers Effective Financial Incentives
The average cost of employer-provided health coverage exceeded $20,000 for a family plan last year. Employers covered around 71% of this cost while employees paid the rest. Conventional approaches to managing these high costs have failed and call for employers to become receptive to new, competitive programs that offer substantial medical benefits, improve health outcomes, and reduce costs. Care navigation is an emerging concept that represents the idea that individuals, services and teams must work together so that people can get access to the right help, at the right time, in the right place.