Benefits Think

Continuing to educate and communicate with employees throughout the year can help control the overwhelming feeling of making benefit selections in the future. Here’s how employers can do it.

By leveraging robust human resources management tools and benefits administration systems, employers can personally connect with every employee and develop programs that hone their skills.

Focusing on a shared vision and building the culture of a brokerage will naturally lead to a better product, says columnist Wendy Keneipp.

A minor emergency left one benefit consultant considering how to keep costs down.

By connecting the two, HR professionals add one-on-one employee communication to boost understanding and engagement and additional insurance options tailored to employees’ needs.

It’s almost a guarantee that employers will see increasing pharmacy costs even when the plan is negotiated and managed properly. That’s why it’s important to review PBM contracts carefully.

Recommendation tools are not only helping workers choose more appropriate health plans, they are also educating them as to the value of their benefits, says Willis Towers Watson’s Rob Harkins.

For most payers and self-funded employer plans, air ambulance flights an out-of-network charge that can be staggering.

‘The bulk of advisers’ embrace the principles of the regulation and will continue to carry them out.

From what will happen with cost containment provisions to addressing broker business models, BAN’s Perry Braun is looking for answers.