Employer Strategies

Offering too many benefit choices can hurt engagement in programs and lower participation rates. Employers should consider targeted, individual offerings.

Clients need to be ready to offer benefits and workplace perks that match employees most important needs.

Proposed rules would provide consumers more detail about the actual prices hospitals charge insurers.

An estimated 8 in 10 workers with a mental health condition don’t get treatment because of the shame and stigma associated with it.

Withdrawals for non-medical expenses would no longer be penalty-free under the proposal.

“The struggles and her success in working through it have been an inspiration for our entire community,” Elizabeth Krystyn, co-founder of BKS.

Text messages, mobile apps and videos are all methods brokers can use to get — and keep — employees attention during open enrollment and beyond.

“When you can look at [an employee] and say we just saved you that copay, that means something,” one expert says.

Clients often look to advisers for guidance when implementing a new healthcare spending model.

Employers need to be ready to offer benefits and workplace perks that match employees most important needs.