Eric Helman

Last week’s executive order may unleash a chaotic landscape where employers, employees and advisers don’t understand the new rules.

Last week’s executive order may unleash a chaotic landscape where employers, employees and advisers don’t understand the new rules.

Actionable analytics stemming from the democratization of big data are enabling employers, brokers and consultants to improve the performance of their plans like never before.

Politicizing of the discussion from both sides of the aisle stands in the way of addressing the country’s chief problem of rising costs, says Hodges-Mace’s Eric Helman.

Politicizing of the discussion from both sides of the aisle stands in the way of addressing the country’s chief problem of rising costs, says Hodges-Mace’s Eric Helman.

Keep workers interested by reducing obstacles such as multiple passwords that are undermining participant access, says Hodges-Mace’s Eric Helman.

: Regardless of policy outcome, employers must continue to apply innovative and creative strategies for employee benefits, says Hodges-Mace’s Eric Helman.

Regardless of policy outcome, employers and benefit consultants must continue to apply innovative and creative strategies for employee benefits, says Hodges-Mace’s Eric Helman.

Compliance, creativity, clarification and confusion reign in employee benefits, says Eric T. Helman, chief strategy officer at Hodges-Mace.

Plan sponsors must stay ahead of emerging trends or risk exposing themselves to additional costs, says Hodges-Mace’s Eric Helman.

Advisers must stay ahead of emerging trends or risk exposing clients to additional costs, says Hodges-Mace’s Eric Helman.

Dozens of brokers and consultants weigh in on the practice, and Hodges-Mace’s Eric Helman explains the fallacies behind this siloed approach.

The common rationales for separating them into silos are no longer applicable, according to Eric Helman of Hodges-Mace.

The three most common rationales for keeping them separate are all wrong, says benefit services expert Eric Helman

Employers are increasingly discovering that poor benefits enrollment decisions on the part of workers can actually undermine organizational efforts to control plan costs.

Having had time to take measure of the healthcare reform law, their focus is shifting from ensuring compliance to controlling costs, says Eric Helman of Hodges-Mace.

Having had time to take measure of the health care reform law, their focus is shifting from assuring compliance to controlling costs, says Eric Helman of Hodges-Mace.

Moving beyond biggest loser-type competions and step challenges, employer-based programs are entering a new phase that make use of targeted incentives to create specific outcomes.

Targeted incentives and automated employee follow-up can improve outcomes.

Some organizations are deploying a strategy that reduces their HSA contributions in favor of employer-funded indemnity products, such as accident and critical illness insurance.