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Several factors contribute to workers’ failure to use the perks available to them, but employers can help with predictive and preventive approaches.

Advisers are pressed to help clients reduce their health benefits spend while improving outcomes. These tools can help.

The most successful benefit advisers move beyond routine service offerings and position themselves as trusted business consultants.

It’s easy to fault the insurance industry, but dealing with the government could be a nightmare. This is why benefit advisers need to step in.

A raft of under-popularized strategies are helping advisers reign in their clients healthcare costs.

Employer clients with high-deductible health plans could be snared by recent legislation in Illinois, Maryland and Oregon.

Employers may not be able to remove the stigma of behavioral illness, but they can invest in quality health programs where early identification and referrals to treatment can be encouraged and facilitated.

Sales are booming for this voluntary product that fills numerous coverage gaps.

Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan may not supplant the carriers—but they may very well force them to reinvent their business model.

Companies should hold providers accountable and insist that employees receive evidence-based treatments.