Tristan Lejeune

Employee engagement has risen in the past year, according to Temkin Group research, and those companies with highly engaged employees are reaping personnel and profit rewards.

Only 6% of those surveyed by Aon Hewitt plan to exit employer-sponsored health care entirely, but around 28% are eyeing the next three to five years for a move to a private health care exchange.

MetLife polled hundreds of human resource and benefits professionals about legal services in a voluntary package, and the top reason given among those who make the offering is improving employee satisfaction (69%).

“Over the past few years it’s [been] closing the plan, freezing the plan -- now, we’re actually seeing them trying to shed the liability,” Fidelity’s Laurie E. Vance said in Washington.

Even companies who have no interest in getting involved with a public health care exchange for active employees might help steer their pre-65 retirees toward the marketplace, experts with Fidelity Investments said Thursday.

Those between the ages of 40 and 50 were the most likely (25%) to say they were “not confident” or “completely doubtful” in their ability to retire and maintain their current lifestyle.

In a Midwest Business Group on Health webinar, representatives from three private health insurance exchanges offered insight into what employers, employees and the overall market can gain from the emerging model.

A new study indicates there could be treatment differences when a patient is seen in person versus an e-visit. While follow-up rates were comparable, physicians in e-visits did order different care.

Panel discussion addresses gaps in technical skills and education, and why employers need to take more responsibility for workforce training.

A group of panelists met last week at the Aspen Institute in Washington to discuss the skilled labor shortage, or indeed, if there even is one.

Barry Lundquist, president of the Council for Disability Awareness, says his group has had a solid start in its effort to educate on the dangerous gaps in long-term coverage.

Reaching out to younger Americans, the illiterate and those who don’t speak English (all of whom represent significant portions of the uninsured ) could be the biggest PPACA education task ahead for the Department of Health and Human Services — and employers.

Proposed changes would have required the tracking of unscheduled intermittent leave, a move opposed by the Society for Human Resource Management.

Lawmakers from Michigan and Wisconsin were among those who called PPACA a good “first step” toward health care coverage for all Americans at a Families USA conference in Washington.

Average U.S. job tenure increased in 2012 but is still at levels many might consider low, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

The death of employer-sponsored health care coverage is largely exaggerated, says Robert Galvin, CEO of Equity Healthcare.

A survey from Aon Hewitt, the National Business Group on Health and The Futures Company indicates that many American workers and their families have inaccurate perceptions about their own weight, condition and cost of health care.

Among the many unknowns that come with the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is one that could hit consumers right in the teeth: orthodontic reimbursement.

Temkin Group research says 57% of the U.S. workforce is moderately to highly engaged, compared to 47% a year ago. The benefits of a highly engaged population, though hard to quantify, can lead in significantly above-average financial performance.

A small survey from the Midwest Group on Health indicates that, while further conversation is needed, awareness of the challenges surrounding specialty pharmacy is increasing.