Plans May Feel More Pressure from Employers to Fix Health Disparities

February 16

A recent report from Morgan Health, JP Morgan Chase & Co.’s health care venture fund and consultancy, documents troubling disparities for health care access and outcomes among Black, Asian American and Hispanic employer-sponsored insurance plan members; lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) plan members; and ESI members with low incomes. Experts tell AIS Health, a division of MMIT, that plan sponsors and insurers must consider plan design and provider incentives, among other strategies, to close health disparity gaps.

Plan sponsors and insurers can take proactive steps to reduce health disparities among their plan members, experts say — and they add that there are clear business incentives for doing so.

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Peter Johnson

Peter has worked as a journalist since 2011 and has covered health care since 2020. At AIS Health, Peter covers trends in finance, business and policy that affect the health insurance and pharma sectors. For Health Plan Weekly, he covers all aspects of the U.S. health insurance sector, including employer-sponsored insurance, Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage and the Affordable Care Act individual marketplaces. In Radar on Drug Benefits, Peter covers the operations of (and conflicts between) pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical manufacturers, with a particular focus on pricing dynamics and market access. Before joining AIS Health, Peter covered transportation, public safety and local government for various outlets in Seattle, his hometown and current place of residence. He graduated with a B.A. from Colby College.