Value

Solutions to help your business control spend

How to manage rising healthcare costs without compromising quality

Employers face growing pressure to balance affordability with access to quality care for their employees. Our value-based solutions include flexible plan designs, integrated benefits, and trusted provider partnerships that deliver better patient outcomes at a low cost.

Get accessible, affordable plans
Lower-cost plan options offer peace of mind and savings you can pass on to your employees.
Deliver outcomes-based, affordable programs
Put data-driven care into action to reduce costs and improve outcomes.

Support each employee’s unique health journey
Empower employees with market-leading case management and personalized digital resources—backed by predictive tools to reduce rising risk.

Our solutions

Premera continuously explores new ways to partner with providers and deliver value-based care that positively impacts members’ lives.

MORE VALUE

Premera-Designated Centers of Excellence

Support for the most common specialty services—knee and hip replacements, spine surgeries, and gynecological procedures—to deliver better patient outcomes at a fair price.

Expand Medical Transportation Benefits to target top high-cost procedures
Offer guided access to select high-performing facilities in Alaska and Washington
Dedicated care coordination from Premera Personal Health Support clinicians and medical travel experts

38K

average savings across all specialty care procedures ¹

38K

average savings across all specialty care procedures ¹

MORE IMPACT

Value-based programs

Offer strategic benefit designs and programs using transparency and data to guide members toward higher-quality, more efficient care.

Leverage site-of-service benefit designs to align cost sharing with care quality
Boost outcomes and reduce long-term costs through proactive care gap outreach
Provide digital chronic care integrated with mental health and weight support

45%

lower cost for surgeries performed at ambulatory surgical centers ²

45%

average annual savings per single dialysis case ²

MORE SUPPORT

Right-level care management

Integrated whole-person and mental health support across the spectrum of your employee’s unique health risks.

Offer market-leading case management for personalized complex care assistance
Integrate 24/7 cancer support with dedicated oncology support team
Contain future costs by engaging hidden-risk members with personalized digital resources

20%

of rising-risk patients transition to complex needs and high-risk category each year ³

20%

of rising-risk patients transition to complex needs and high-risk category each year ³

“Really, the biggest benefit we experience with Premera is the ability to provide an attractive and more affordable plan choice for our employees that saves them money.”

Current Premera customer, HR Manager

Learn more about how Premera offers solutions that deliver value.

Alaska Medical Transportation Benefits

Value-based benefit designs

Enhanced Case Management

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Sources

38K average savings across all specialty care procedures at Premera-Designated Centers of Excellence.
Premera Health Care Economics, Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Jan. 2024 based on claims paid through January 6, 2024.
45%+ lower cost for surgeries performed at ambulatory surgical centers
“Huge cost savings and other benefits boost ambulatory surgery center growth.” Provista, 6 Mar. 2023, www.provista.com/blog/blog-listing/huge-cost-savings-and-other-benefits-boost-ambulatory-surgery-center-growth. Accessed July 2, 2025.
20% of rising-risk patients transition to the high-risk category each year
(2017). “Addressing the needs of your rising-risk patients,” www.advisory.com/topics/high-risk-patient-management/2018/02/addressing-the-needs-of-your-rising-risk-patients. Accessed 18 Sept. 2025.

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