Benefits Think

There’s significant growth in value-oriented payment methods, but the jury is out on whether these new methods improve the quality of care and make it more affordable.

Management must realize that their workplace is not spared by the national epidemic of painkiller abuse. Here are steps to reduce their employees’ risk and loss of productivity.

First offered by large Silicon Valley companies, time-saving benefits are now spreading to employers and industries of all kinds.

The ruling is a step in the right direction. But be warned: There are too many unknowns for companies to begin offering the program.

As these offerings become more popular among small and midsize businesses, brokers need to know the details of these plans.

Management must realize that their workplace is not spared by the national epidemic of painkiller abuse. Here are steps to reduce their employees’ risk and loss of productivity.

Companies often get overtime compliance wrong and those mistakes can get very expensive, very quickly.

Employers have turned to the alternative payment model for Medicare payments for a simple reason: It works.

Most brokers make the mistake of simply asking employers about their interest in “voluntary” benefits and then wonder why most clients are not interested.

While technology has transformed almost nearly all aspects of business, human resource departments only partially use digital tools, realize limited benefits.