Employers’ Desire to Shake Up Benefits Vendors Can Be Opportunity for Insurers

Although U.S. employers already contract with a bevy of health and wellbeing vendors, a recent survey found that nearly nine in 10 are planning to make changes to their vendor partnerships in the next two years — chiefly by adding or enhancing current offerings. As companies do so, health insurers have a critical role to play when it comes to integrating various solutions and helping employees find them, an employee benefits expert says.

Employers’ desire to add and enhance health/wellbeing offerings “doesn’t look like it’s going to stop anytime soon,” says Regina Ihrke, senior director and health, equity and wellbeing leader at WTW. Therefore, large medical benefits carriers “are going to have to continue to be nimble and flexible in who they partner with, and then how they also integrate with other carveout solutions that are out there,” she tells AIS Health, a division of MMIT.

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