New rules from the Department of Labor are helpful, but they should be loosened up further so employers can save money and provide better insurance to employees.

The firm’s 3.5 million users can sign up with an interactive platform that provides information and a dash of humor.

These platforms can improve the recruitment process for startups and other smaller companies.

Many workers are not financially stable and not prepared for retirement, according to the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, resulting in an increase in onsite financial programs.

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

Setting up a medical coverage plan requires knowing your clients and what drives their thinking.

Besides the advantage of retaining employees, there’s evidence that paternity leave can also help to close the gender pay gap.

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.”

Self-funding consultant Bill Geraci of MAGIC employs a range of plan management strategies designed to drive down expense and improve healthcare.

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

PSU’s school of business will offer an online, one-year course for human resources professionals.

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.

As employers use technology to become more agile and competitive, AI is quickly gaining a multitude of use cases.

Physician assistants understand how, when and where their peers want their healthcare and can form long-term patient-provider relationships by leveraging their understanding of patient lifestyles and behaviors.

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.

An estimated 126.6 million Americans suffer chronic physical pain, yet 35% of surgeries are not necessary leading to billions of employer dollars going to waste.

Forget Biggest Loser-style competitions and healthy snacks. It’s time to focus on chronic diseases and lifestyle changes.

Adviser Kimberly Eckelbarger has a new take on wellness as a way to reduce employers’ expenses

While cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Litecoin have used this technology for several years, innovators in the group healthcare market are exploring ways to use this data security provision to monitor claims cost.