Benefits Think

Providing telehealth visits and offering workers a personal advocate to transfer medical records or schedule appointments are among the strategies employers should consider.

For companies, the arrangement can mean a healthier workforce, better care for their employees and less money spent paying for employees’ medical bills.

Employers be prepared: A false out-of-pocket cap could create a financial bear trap for employees.

Plan sponsors can help find retirement accounts with the help of “auto-locate,” a technology that creates links between record-keeping systems and establishes a virtual database of all employee records.

In a major win for employers, SCOTUS held that arbitration agreements with class action waivers do not violate the National Labor Relations Act.

By not prioritizing the use of pharmacy benefit management drug rebates, the administration is hurting companies, who shoulder the burden of rising costs by all stakeholders in the supply chain.

It is widely anticipated that the March 15 ruling will soon take effect, restoring the DOL’s 1975 regulation defining fiduciary investment advice to plan and IRA investors.

Employers are increasingly turning to the computer program to more effectively manage their workforces during a worker shortage while still keeping up with productivity demands.

How to deal with the biggest IRS issue employers didn’t know they had.

Advisers should be asking themselves how to stay relevant and keep up with the kind of technology that can help them better serve their clients.