Benefit management

The company recently added six new health skills to its virtual assistant — which may lead to improved healthcare compliance and education, experts say.

A direct primary care model saved me from having a horrible health outcome. Can we embrace other new ideas to turn a broken system around?

A group called the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable, representing more than 8 million workers, is partnering with health startups to transform employee care — and change the industry in the process.

Companies should view convenience benefits as a way to help workers alleviate errand paralysis and simplify the incessant responsibilities of life.

A lesson for benefit advisers: What happens when an employer uses gamification to develop a benefits plan?

The social media company says it adopted a self-funded healthcare model due to frustration over its previous provider’s prices and services.

As the price of prescription drugs soar, advisers need to find more innovative strategies to help clients lower costs.

The company will move to $13 an hour in June, bringing the retailer closer to the goal it set of reaching $15 an hour by the end of next year.

Definite steps are needed to improve worker prospects: Employees should save more. Clients should offer auto-enrollment. And Congress should make it all easier.

The social media company says it adopted a self-funded healthcare model due to frustration over its previous provider’s prices and services.