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UnitedHealthcare and Health Action Council are working together on an information series designed to start meaningful conversations with self-funded employers to help mitigate the health risk of their employees and their families. Our goal with these is to foster meaningful dialogue to help support your health improvement and cost management strategies.

Combat health care inflation through better choices

For employers and their health benefit programs, the impact of inflation for the economy has yet to be fully realized as many healthcare providers sign multi-year contracts.

The state of COVID outcomes and why it matters to your business

How well did the American Health Rankings report correlate to the cumulative state performance for COVID deaths per 1,000?

Creating a virtuous cycle of trust

Practical steps can be taken by employers to make progress against certain disparities to show employees that trust in their employer is well placed.

The “Great Resignation” and your health care risk profile

The bottom line is each self-funded employer needs to assess the risk profile of their current workforce.

Value of an equity-based health improvement strategy

Together, UnitedHealthcare and Health Action Council have been studying the impact of community outcomes and social determinants for the past six years and have developed an assessment tool to help self-funded employers.

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