Health and wellness

A vast majority of workers are tapping their health savings accounts to pay for immediate healthcare expenses — and nine other findings from Willis Towers Watson.

Health savings account participants are more engaged in their healthcare decisions but still see HSAs as ways for reducing medical expense.

Employers are grappling with slow adoption even as they push high-deductible health plans as a smart bet for more workers.

Nearly two in three workers are tapping their health savings accounts to pay for healthcare expenses with only a modest 8% saving for the future.

The company will offer HSA services to 36,000 retirement plan sponsor clients in the first quarter of 2019.

Although employer-provided health plans include mental health and substance abuse care benefits, barriers — such as a lack of in-network providers — prevent workers from accessing the care.

The company will offer HSA services to 36,000 retirement plan sponsor clients in the first quarter of 2019.

The Trump administration this week proposed to allow U.S. employees to use tax-free health reimbursement arrangements to shop for coverage in the individual market. Here’s what it means for employers.

Employees who want to stretch their dollars during their post-work years may want to avoid these places.

While more employers are offering a flu shot benefit, it can be difficult to get workers to sign up.

These programs focus on giving healthcare resources to a specific group of at-risk employees — the people who make up 62% of healthcare spend.

These programs focus on giving healthcare resources to a specific group of at-risk employees — the people who make up 62% of healthcare spend.

While tax reform has been a mixed bag for muni bonds, a few factors working in their favor include constrained supply this year, as well as historically low defaults.

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.

There is opportunity to bring the health model to the employer-purchaser masses. Payers and niche vendors play a significant role in making that happen.