Employee benefits

United Parcel Service Inc.’s decision to drop health benefits for 15,000 of its workers’ spouses may be a sign of the future, as U.S. businesses grapple with rising medical bills and the added burdens of the ACA.

Employee discount programs remain popular, but with a caveat.

By helping employees understand how their benefits work and how payment was applied to a particular claim, it’s hoped the tool will ease the administrative burden for employers, as well.

Here are some plan attributes generally felt to promote employee retirement readiness.

Employers reported modest premium increases in 2013, according to an annual Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Education Trust study published today in the journal Health Affairs.

Less than two months before health exchanges open to the public, hospitals are asking to change a part of the Affordable Care Act that leaves them at financial risk for patients who fall behind on their insurance premiums.

The willingness and ability to adapt to transformative change is as essential to the financial services industry as it is to smartphones.

Towers Watson has signed a web broker entity agreement with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which supervises the health insurance exchange operated by the federal government in 36 states.

Ahead of Jan. 1, 2014, when all Americans will be required to have health insurance, insurers should be focusing on making their web presence as user-friendly and informative as possible.

Some of the cheapest drugs, he points out, can do the most damage in terms of personnel issues.

Here are some suggestions for providing financial services in a multi-cultural and multi-national business environment.

Lawyer Garrett Fenton speaks to EBN about the Affordable Care Act's transitional reinsurance program and why employers need to start preparing for it now.

Dianne Howard, director of risk and benefits management for Florida’s Palm Beach County school district, takes EBN’s 2013 Benny Award for Benefits Leadership in Health Care.

Are the options advisers can offer likely to expand in the near future?

Migrating employees to the exchanges isn’t right for every organization. But if employees would view exchange offerings as equal or better than what they current have, then there could be plenty of upsides.

Proper documentation is a best practice for keeping track of expenses.

Supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act have targeted U.S. mothers in a surge of advertising and grassroots organizing as a major piece of Obamacare readies to roll out Oct 1.

Robin Gelburd, president of FAIR Health, Inc., responds to an article by Contributing Editor Shana Sweeney about her struggles with educating employees about the costs of out-of-network claims.

Lawmakers encouraged to expand incentives on retirement savings plans.

Too many Americans believe cash investments are their best choice.