Employer Strategies

An insurance exchange executive and benefits communication expert discuss how employers can succeed in the new health care model exchanges will bring.

The Internal Revenue Service releases a long-awaited set of rules for correcting employee retirement plans that fail to meet the requirements of the Tax Code.

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

The cost of prescription medication used to treat aging-related conditions has been steadily increasing over the past five years and could soon overtake spending on chronic conditions.

CDHPs control health care inflation with no deleterious effects on members’ health or financial position, maintains contributing editor Andrew Sykes.

Focusing on cost alone ignores an important half of the health care equation: good health, says Truven’s Dr. Ray Fabius.

As high-deductible health plans become more popular, employers should take special note of gaps in employees’ understanding to make sure the plan is utilized as intended.

There’s no end in sight to rise of voluntary critical illness insurance benefits.

While a tax-exempt retirement plan might look good on paper, it could likely use a little work in order to hit the right notes with employees. Aaron Friedman, national practice leader at The Principal Financial Group, provides some best practices to aid in creating a proper, effective participant education plan.

Opioid painkiller abuse and physicians dispensing of repackaged drugs top the list of cost drivers in the 2012 Survey of Prescription Drug Management.