Most other states are watching Montana to see if its new approach to employee benefits will work, or if it will end up raising rates and limiting options.
The plan gained national renown among employers and health care price reform advocates when it established maximum amounts the health plan would pay for all inpatient and outpatient services.
Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices its public employee health plan pays hospitals for services, an approach that has saved the state millions of dollars and become a model for health plans nationwide.
Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices its public employee health plan pays hospitals for services, an approach that has saved the state millions of dollars and become a model for health plans nationwide. The plan gained national renown among employers and health care price reform advocates