Healthcare

In order to engage and boost talent, employers should look at newer technologies and be more flexible in an increasingly digital world, experts say.

Beware carrier sales reps that hawk voluntary packages that don’t fit your needs.

Getting top brass buy-in and the right technology partners are essential.

Employers should offer incentives to get employees to participate, create a healthy culture at work and properly communicate offerings to workers, among other guidelines.

To avoid headaches, clients need to look at and/or provisions and pre-existing conditions, among others.

In order to engage and boost talent, employers should look at newer technologies and be more flexible in an increasingly digital world, experts say.

Employees will be able to ask their personal benefits questions in any way they choose and in real time.

Instead of offsetting current healthcare costs, HSA providers are seeing workers prepare for their post-work medical expenses.

Even when employees do not sue, poor treatment of workers who need time off to care for sick relatives can backfire on owners.

Workers should not assume that Medicare will cover all their medical expenses, or that they'll see a decrease in their expenses after they retire.