How to Track and Address Low Back Pain in Your Benefits Data

You’ll find members suffering from low back pain in just about every member population, and it can be a high-cost condition for both employers and employees. Here’s how we’re addressing it with benefits data.

The "Home Alone Burglars" Would Have Been High Cost Claimants

When you rewatch the classic holiday movie “Home Alone” as an adult, it’s hard to understand why those burglars were so persistent. Sure, little Kevin and his house made a great target, but one might think after the first BB-gun shot to the face, you’d find an easier target (and seek care at an emergency room).

Do You Have One Hour A Week To Improve Your Benefits?

Time and resources. It’s one of the top five things we hear from employers when we ask why they’re not using a benefits data tool. However, even with the barrier of time, 89% of employers said they’re very likely or somewhat likely to use benefits data analytics in the next 12-18 months.

How Employers Can Avoid Pushing Healthcare Costs to Employees

With healthcare costs rising each year, the obvious temptation is to roll costs onto employees.While we do see this concern around costs among our clients, Artemis also talks to a lot of employers, consultants, and brokers who are instead finding ways to reduce costs without affecting employees. So how are they doing it?

Why Healthcare Needs A Customer Success Focus

I’ve dedicated my career to ensuring a great experience for customers. It’s a passion for me. I believe any organization that puts the needs, desires, and experiences of customers first is one that will succeed. So how can healthcare put "customers" first?

Artemis and EBN Teamed Up to Survey Employers—Here's What We Found

Employee Benefit News and Artemis Health conducted a survey of large, self-insured employers to find out what's driving their benefits strategies. We learned what programs they're offering, what's important to them, and how they're using data.

Are Scary Halloween Diagnoses Impacting Your Benefits Spending?

The spookiest time of year is upon us once again. It's time to explore the dark, nitty-gritty diagnoses and costs in your population. In celebration of Halloween, we’re looking at three diagnoses that evoke the spirit of the holiday.

Four Reasons Brokers & Consultants Need Benefits Data

Benefits data is the key to making healthcare spending more efficient, evaluating networks and providers, and ensuring members get the support and care they need. And benefits data isn’t just for employers—more and more broker consultants are using data with their employer clients. Here’s why.

Evaluating a Data Warehouse—How To Get It Right

Artemis Health wants to help you find the right data warehouse for your benefits team, employees, and organization. We know this process is long and time-consuming, and you don't have time to waste. That's why we created this helpful infographic to help you determine what you should look for in a data vendor.

See Our Avoidable ER App In Action

You know that some of your benefits costs are going to waste, but do you know how much? Or what to do about it? Artemis Health has developed unique data models to calculate Avoidable ER overspending and help you take steps to reduce it. Watch the video to learn how we do it.

E-Scooters Are Contributing To Your High Healthcare Costs

All over the country, electric scooters are popping up on city streets. We wanted to see how the e-scooter trend might be affecting self-insured employers. So we dove into our handy demo data to search for demographics and cost information for common scooter injuries.

Artemis Tips: Exporting from the Artemis Platform

So you’ve built a beautiful new Story, Exploration or Visualization using the Artemis Platform. But now you need to share your hard work with stakeholders, VPs, or C-suite folks who aren’t using Artemis. We’ve got it covered. Here's how to export from the Artemis Platform.

How to Find Prescription Benefit Savings in the Artemis Platform

Prescription benefits are one of the things that keeps self-insured employers and consultants up at night. We’ve written in the past about the growing problem and some potential strategies for battling high prescription costs. But today, we want to walk you through some tactical tips.

Is Your Employee Population Affected by Antibiotic Overuse?

Health Affairs reports that the estimated cost of drug-resistant infections has reached $2.2 billion annually. It’s a brewing crisis, not just in the United States, but globally. Artemis Health is able to track, calculate, and visualize trends like these. How does antibiotic overuse affect your employee population?

Price Transparency Tools Are Driving Better Benefits

Have you ever purchased a big ticket item without checking the price? Only the richest among us will have bought a refrigerator, car, or new sofa without knowing how much it would cost. When it comes to healthcare, though, most of us do this all the time. Employers and benefits advisors are trying to change this. They’re helping their populations find better, value-based care complete with cost information through vendors known as “price transparency solutions.”