We might be in the midst of a pandemic, but insiders say there are still opportunities to rethink employer-sponsored health care with the right CEO at the helm.
These sorts of programs tend to work best when the executives behind these companies are totally engaged, experts say.
Printon said that there's another challenge: To get these direct contracting programs to work, it often requires that the employer have a large concentration of workers in a specific geographic location. For Haven, that might mean bringing on other employers to its consortium that have more of an overlap with the current distribution for J.P. Morgan, Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway.Forcing changeAccording to Jain, it's not as simple as it sounds.
But the pharmacy costs for employers are astronomical, representing about 20 to 25 percent of their overall health care spending, so it would be impossible to ignore for a group with Haven's goals. For that reason, it's not altogether surprising that the current COO hails from the world of pharmacy benefits.
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