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As the economy improves, corporate profits increase, and the job market strengthens, employers are getting creative to hold on to key employees, including developing and articulating a distinctive employee value proposition. Retention (and acquisition) requires not only a competitive salary and benefits, but also an array of nonfinancial strategies.

Employers, on the whole, report seeing their health care costs continuing to rise – most suggest that costs will jump 19% between 2013 and 2014 alone.

In an environment of rapidly rising premiums and deductibles, non-traditional products and services help mitigate health care costs, promote educated consumerism, and reduce out-of-pocket medical expenses for the insured, uninsured and under-insured.

After struggling for two months to fix the federal online insurance exchange at the core of the law, Obama Tuesday began what aides say will be a three-week campaign to use his bully pulpit to regain momentum for his signature domestic initiative.

The Notre Dame case is among 86 lawsuits attacking ACA on religious grounds, sources say, and the Supreme Court has agreed to hear challenges.

Most, if not all, recent analyses of wellness programs have had a seemingly myopic focus on the impact of wellness on health care costs to the exclusion of these programs' effects on an organization's business and financial outcomes.

Blogger Rob Lieblein points out that about 70% of insurance agencies don’t have a succession plan and says that it’s not as easy and fast a process as most brokers think.

Employers continue to see a rise in health insurance costs. Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage reached $16,351 in 2013, up 4% from last year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) 2013 Employer Health Benefits Survey. So how can employers work to control these costs? A key success factor in reducing health insurance costs is the leadership’s commitment to this strategy. Can you find top-down leadership commitment to a long-term program…

Dave Albertson, the editorial director of SourceMedia’s Healthcare Group, died on Sunday, November 24, from heart disease.

To help make the most of open enrollment season and position yourself as a trusted resource for your roster of HR managers, The Standard's John West shares a few focus areas to help strengthen your clients’ overall benefits health.