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Addiction recovery costs are skyrocketing for companies, but employee education on drug usage can help stem the tide.

Making tweaks to your health savings account communications strategy can increase employee enrollment and contributions.

Outcomes were generally positive and can be used by advisers to help clients get more out of the program.

Making tweaks to your health savings account communications strategy can increase employee enrollment and contributions.

These vehicles are already popular, but advisers can help encourage even greater participation and savings.

Hailed as a more rational way for employers to pay for healthcare, the case highlight’s the strategy’s risks.

Different threats from major shifts in two industries are pushing Walmart Inc. and health insurer Humana Inc. toward the same solution.

Thanks to a higher level of scrutiny from regulators, many insurers also act as financial managers and this leads employers to find elective benefit alternatives.

Three hundred large hospital systems are teaming up to control rising drug costs. But even their firepower might not be enough.

Without having done much yet, Amazon.com is already transforming U.S. healthcare – and not necessarily for the better.