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Today's retirement confidence numbers show how nervous employees are about securing their financial futures. But even before the recession, workers weren't exactly financial Einsteins. Now that economic conditions are working even more against them, this month's National Financial Literacy Month comes...

You should check the settlement terms and you will find the AWP adjustment applies to about 1442 NDCs. FDB and Medi-Span independent of the settlement announced they will adjust AWPs for all other NDCs who's markup is greater than 1.20 (about 15-20K NDCs).

EBRI's annual barometer of Americans' retirement confidence shows the recession has worn away workers' assuredness that their golden years will be happy, healthy and financially secure.

On March 30, a District Court in Massachusetts made a final judgment to approve a class-action setlement involving First Databank and Medi-Span, two major publishers of drug pricing information.

We are seeing more activity to recompete currently outsourced deals and less initiative to outsource for the first time. I'd also say that, surprisingly, some larger organizations that outsourced functions years ago are revisiting the business case and evaluating insourcing those functions.

This likely won't come as much of a surprise, unfortunately, but new survey numbers from Aon show 60% of employers expect their overall health care costs to increase as a result of implementing the federal COBRA subsidy.

I know you have your hands full to overflowing in dealing with the COBRA subsidy, but I wanted to let you know the government is providing extra resources on another important subsidy for benefit pros: the Medicare Part D subsidy.

I agree with Helen´s assessment on health & welfare outsourcing deals for first timers, it will be more difficult to justify outsourcing. However we are seeing an increase in the number of companies who have already outsourced going back to market to see if they can improve service levels (or maintaining...

This article is bad. It doesn't tell you anything and I have had to click through twice to find out it had no content and was led to click again to listen to a podcast. Thanks but no thanks!

A new survey of 1,002 Americans by Econ4U shows how Americans are responding to the financial crisis. And although respondents appear to be saving more, the overall outlook is pretty cloudy.