Benefit management

The domestic steel producer saw savings of $870,000 after it initiated Castlight’s health navigation platform.

Here’s why it’s important: When it comes to benefit plan cost management, pennies make nickels and nickels make quarters.

The proposed changes to health savings accounts will require employee notifications and communication efforts as well as enrollment system and payroll changes.

Another legal challenge to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has advisers grappling with new business strategies and tactics.

Plan sponsors and advisers: “It is important to realize that three or four years from now, what is done today will be examined, and it needs to be done with a good standard of care and mitigation of conflicts of interest.”

The domestic steel producer saw savings of $870,000 after it initiated Castlight’s health navigation platform.

This does not mean that plan sponsors and committee members cannot insist on getting non-conflicted fiduciary advice; it just makes their job harder.

Although red-flagged cases percentage of ineligible plan participants may be in single digits, wasted dollars add up and could fund other benefits if uncovered.

Employee Benefit News’ annual Benny Awards recognize professionals who have demonstrated excellence in the employee benefits/human resources field.

A number of employee benefit adviser veterans found new jobs and key roles inside brokerages, insurance firms and private companies.

Here’s why it’s important: When it comes to benefit plan cost management, pennies make nickels and nickels make quarters.

What should group insurers look for when considering exciting new supplemental offerings to provide?

The National Business Group on Health, alongside leading companies and industry experts, partner to improve workers’ experience with employer-provided health and well-being plans.

More employers are embracing wellness and work-life balance perks for employees, according to the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual benefits survey.

Walmart, JPMorgan and FedEx execs sound off on how the tight labor market is transforming their recruitment strategies and causing them to invest heavily in employees.

A cost-efficient target date series? Availability of investment advice? Employers, make sure your retirement plan possesses these key attributes.

Digital strategist recommends Facebook or Slack groups as an optional avenue for year-round benefits communication, though a millennial broker begs to differ.

Walmart, JPMorgan and FedEx execs sound off on how the tight labor market is transforming their recruitment strategies and causing them to invest heavily in employees.

Worried that its employees weren’t getting the preventive care they needed, the country’s largest bedding manufacturer established onsite health checkups to help them rest easy.