Economy

Benefits consultants play a key role in preparing employers for how they should use point-of-sale rebates to lower healthcare costs.

If virtual medicine is pursued in the name of business efficiency or just profit, it has enormous potential to make healthcare worse, one expert says.

Benefits consultants play a key role in preparing employers for how they should use point-of-sale rebates to lower healthcare costs.

Claims are astronomical. The first thing clients should do is cover prescription drugs under stop-loss insurance.

Claims are astronomical. The first thing employers should do is cover prescription drugs under stop loss insurance.

As workers bear the brunt of healthcare costs, clients can take actionable steps to help, including funding employees’ health savings accounts.

This move addresses “the absolute lowest hanging fruit” when it comes to fixing the health insurance market, one expert says.

Initiatives like Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway’s Haven may be key to improving drug transparency, says one PBM CEO.

Small- and medium-sized companies will have access to the software platform’s database of benefit advisers.

As workers bear the brunt of healthcare costs, employers can take actionable steps to help, including funding employees' health savings accounts.