Giving Compass' Take:

· Jessica Kuhn at The Colorado Springs Business Journal explains how focusing on employee education and providing wellness programs can help employers cut down on healthcare costs.

·How can funders support employers efforts to ensure that their workers are informed and educated about their healthcare plans? 

· Read about innovation in employee health care. 

Employers can cut growing health care costs by taking an active interest in employees’ health.

“Through wellness programs and by bringing [experts] in to talk your employees to educate them, employers can lower health care costs,” said Cory Arcarese, owner of Value Care Health Clinic. “I challenge employers to look at what their opinion is on health care because it is economics at the end of the day, and how involved are you with your employees and their health.”

Local health care and employee benefit experts, including Arcarese, last week provided attendees of the 2018 Health Care Panel with solutions to growing health insurance costs. The Business Journal and Kaiser Permanente presented the event.

Other panelists included: Andrea Baldrica, senior vice president of employee benefits at HUB International; Holly Kortum, executive director of Kaiser Permanente’s Southern Colorado operations; Tatiana Bailey, director of the UCCS Economic Forum; Brian Erling, CEO of Penrose-St. Francis Health Services.

Read the full article about lowering healthcare costs by Jessica Kuhn at The Colorado Springs Business Journal.