Wellness

Expanding clinical consultations, utilizing available data and studying drug effectiveness are top avenues to plan improvement.

There’s no way for employees to become successful healthcare consumers if they can’t quickly research the estimated price of medical procedures and prescription drugs.

During Mental Health Awareness Month, employers should refocus their well-being programs to help employees.

Younger employees are more actively engaged in picking a plan and making cost-conscious healthcare decisions than older employees, new EBRI study says.

Benefits Technology Innovator Rod Reasen created Springbuk, which unifies mountains of analytics to help employers forecast healthcare spending and target at-risk workers.

Employees in the sandwich generation are spending a good chunk of their money taking care of family members.

The projected number of Americans covered, premium increases and overall costs will all have an impact on workplace-provided healthcare, says Arthur Tacchino.

Longer life spans and disappointing investment returns will help create the shortfall in about three decades, a figure more than five times the size of the global economy, according to a World Economic Forum report.

Workers with 401(k)s are 15 times more likely to save, but many employees, particularly those at small businesses, don’t have access to the retirement plans.

But new research also suggests that employee engagement is low and better education is needed to boost enrollments.