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2021 Group Benefits Providers Report: Will the rising tide of virtual health-care offerings lift all boats?


4.5% medical cannabis.
The same survey found that benefits providers saw a surge in interest from plan sponsors when it comes to virtual/online health care in 2020, with almost all,
95.4%, being either significantly or somewhat interested. Most plan sponsors were also significantly, or somewhat, interested In pharmacy services at
86.4%, pharmacogenetics at
83.3%, followed by health coaching and navigation at
77.3%. While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has spurred interest in online/virtual health care, there’s significantly less interest in medical cannabis as benefits providers said more than half,
59.1%, of plan sponsors have little, or no, interest in this budding benefits offering.
The report Affleck co-authored, released in February 2020 right before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus to be a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, said there was still a “long way to go” to provide quality publicly-insured virtual care a ....

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