Unexpected healthcare costs are hurting employees. This is what Lincoln Financial is doing to help

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Medicaid funding to states is being reduced.

Healthcare costs have been plaguing employees for decades — and that’s without factoring in the price of the unexpected.

Insurance company Lincoln Financial announced that it will add hospital indemnity insurance to its suite of supplemental health solutions available to its Group Benefits customers, according to a press release. The coverage provides claimants with a lump-sum payment for hospitalization or other covered events, in order to help their workers with expenses that may not be included in their traditional medical insurance.

Paola Peralta
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Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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