Employee benefits

As a Most Influential Woman in Benefit Advising, Winston Benefits’ Meredith Beam brings small-client attention to firms with thousands of employees.

Thanks to Rosetta Stone software, employees of the Chinese chain are opening the lines of communication.

Three in four workers want a personal touch added to their program, says HealthFitness exec Ann Wyatt.

When reviewing medical and pharmacy contracts, employers should look out for language including medical coverage contact, network integration and rebates.

Employees who participated in the company’s “Million Step Challenge” improved their overall health risk status by more than 6% and their physical activity risk by 17%.

In a perfect world, the largest expenses in retirement would be for fun things like travel and entertainment. In the real world, retiree healthcare costs can take an unconscionably big bite out of savings.

The services are aimed at educating employees on how to maximize adoption and utilization of CDH benefit programs, such as HSAs, FSAs and HRAs.

Women are spending fewer years being married, new research finds, a change that “has significant implications for financial planning.”

The firm has shifted to a year-round experience, with future product enhancements to focus on personalization and mobile capabilities.

With the goal of improved participant outcomes, a simplified approach using straightforward language could be more attractive to employees.

Employees who participated in the company’s “Million Step Challenge” improved their overall health risk status by more than 6% and their physical activity risk by 17%.

Participants don’t need a million choices to save successfully for retirement.

The sheer number of modest, inactive 401(k)s — along with the friction in the industry that makes it difficult to seamlessly transfer the balances from plan to plan as participants change jobs — is causing a lot of undue stress.

Up-and-coming tech company Medxoom pilots its first mobile app designed to pay medical bills, manage plan costs and monitor HSA funding.

Trouble on the ACA exchanges could result in a significant shift of costs to firms of all sizes, experts warn.

Companies are showing love to human resources as more capital is being spent on critical roles in departments across the country.

Plan sponsors must continue to offer automatic plan features and do a better job of vetting target-date funds.

Workers should start shoring up their savings by chipping in as much as they reasonably can to their employer’s retirement plan, especially if it comes with a matching contribution.