Health and wellness

These are the simple steps your HR team can take to make sure employees don’t miss out on low-hanging tax savings — and your company doesn’t miss out on payroll tax savings, too.

Employer clients continue to show interest in HSAs, FSAs and HRAs as a way to offset the cost of medical care for employees.

More employers are turning to advisers to help them curb the rising cost of health insurance, new survey data shows.

For employers sponsoring high-deductible health plans with health savings accounts, ensuring that the HDHP continuously remains HSA-qualified is no easy task. But this checklist can help.

A widely held view is that a lot of spending is wasted on “heroic” measures at the end of life, but it’s difficult to know which patients are in their final year.

2018 was a busy year for benefits professionals as they strategized their offerings. Here are some of the good, bad and ugliest trends of the year.

From killing the Cadillac tax to getting all employees to participate in wellness, here’s what was on HR managers’ holiday wish lists.

From killing the Cadillac tax to getting all employees to participate in wellness, here’s what was on HR managers’ holiday wish lists.

Helping clients tackle rising pharmacy costs, boosting voluntary enrollment and mergers were among the most viewed news items of the year.

From Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley, headlines impacting employee benefit decision-makers dominated news cycles.

Still debating how to show appreciation for your workers during the holidays? Time off is just one idea.

Commentary about health savings accounts and financial investing were among the most popular items this year written by industry thought leaders.

A global counseling company contracts with wayForward to provide stress management tools to clients.

A global counseling company contracts with wayForward to provide stress management tools to clients.

Still debating how to show appreciation for your workers during the holidays? Time off is just one idea.

When chronic diseases increased a Colorado city’s health insurance premiums by 12%, a decision to become self-funded turned out to be a smart bet.

The opinion that the entire ACA can no longer stand would disrupt countless aspects of American healthcare, including rules for employer plans.

As the opioid epidemic continues to rage across the country, the fallout is increasingly manifesting itself at construction sites, factories, warehouses, offices and other workplaces.