Healthcare

With the goal of improved participant outcomes, a simplified approach using straightforward language could be more attractive to employees.

Employees who participated in the company’s “Million Step Challenge” improved their overall health risk status by more than 6% and their physical activity risk by 17%.

Participants don’t need a million choices to save successfully for retirement.

The sheer number of modest, inactive 401(k)s — along with the friction in the industry that makes it difficult to seamlessly transfer the balances from plan to plan as participants change jobs — is causing a lot of undue stress.

Up-and-coming tech company Medxoom pilots its first mobile app designed to pay medical bills, manage plan costs and monitor HSA funding.

Trouble on the ACA exchanges could result in a significant shift of costs to firms of all sizes, experts warn.

Companies are showing love to human resources as more capital is being spent on critical roles in departments across the country.

Plan sponsors must continue to offer automatic plan features and do a better job of vetting target-date funds.

Workers should start shoring up their savings by chipping in as much as they reasonably can to their employer’s retirement plan, especially if it comes with a matching contribution.

The sheer number of modest, inactive 401(k)s — along with the friction in the industry that makes it difficult to seamlessly transfer the balances from plan to plan as participants change jobs — is causing a lot of undue stress.