Case Study: State of Montana
When Bartlett took over the state health plan, it spent about $200 million a year. Bartlett’s team estimated that the new hospital pricing schedule saved the plan more than $17 million in the second half of 2016 and all of 2017 — almost $1 million a month. By 2017, a plan that state officials had predicted would go broke had turned itself around. And it’s projected to save an additional $15 million in 2018 without cutting benefits to employees or raising their rates. - ProPublica, Oct. 2018
Occasionally, people question whether health benefits innovation can happen in governmental entities and the story of Montana’s state employee plan demonstrates that it definitely can with the right level of vision, determination and urgency.
