Employer Strategies

Speed, convenience and the growing doctor shortage have patients flocking to ultra-convenient clinics, but not those at the world’s largest retailer: critics say Wal-Mart clinics are poorly promoted and too slow with prescriptions.

A new study indicates there could be treatment differences when a patient is seen in person versus an e-visit. While follow-up rates were comparable, physicians in e-visits did order different care.

In his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama said that “already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs.” Is it? EBN asked one health care expert to help fact-check the claim.

Panel discussion addresses gaps in technical skills and education, and why employers need to take more responsibility for workforce training.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who is preparing to retire, extended benefits such as child care, commissary privileges and transportation to military bases to same-sex partners of service members.

A group of panelists met last week at the Aspen Institute in Washington to discuss the skilled labor shortage, or indeed, if there even is one.

All in all, it is fairly clear that the Supreme Court will ultimately have to sort out the issue of birth control coverage in employee health plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The number of Americans projected to gain insurance from the U.S. health care law is eroding, by at least 5 million people, as the Obama administration struggles to implement the $1.3 trillion overhaul amid Republican opposition.

Companies ramped up hiring toward the end of 2012, a sign they’re finding it difficult to make do with the existing staff as sales improve. A pickup in consumer and business spending last quarter also will help to improve the job market this year.

Proposed changes would have required the tracking of unscheduled intermittent leave, a move opposed by the Society for Human Resource Management.