Cutting Healthcare Costs by Turning Employees into Informed Consumers

Case Study: Steel Dynamics and Castlight Health

Manufacturer Shares Savings by Arming Employees with Data on Healthcare Provider Quality and Costs 

What company hasn’t been hard hit by unrelenting cost increases for healthcare benefits? Tired of just putting up with cost increases, manufacturer Steel Dynamics wanted to do something about the problem. Trusting in the power of market forces, company executives wanted to arm employees with buying information so they could choose better providers and reduce out-of-pocket costs, keeping a lid on costs to the company in the process. 

Steel Dynamics turned to Castlight Health, a cloud-based provider of healthcare management services, to arm employees with qualitative and quantitative data about healthcare choices.  

This case study documents Steel Dynamics experience engaging Castlight Health to manage its workforce's healthcare benefits.