Health and wellness

Employers should inform their workers about the benefits of increasing their 401(k) contributions and investing in health savings accounts, among other tips.

The deal is seen closing by the end of the year.

The HR provider platform is partnering with Guardian and Transamerica to include several new offerings to its package.

The HR provider platform is partnering with Guardian and Transamerica to include several new offerings to its package.

Benefit brokers need to identify who is the right AHP candidate and who should wait. Here’s how to know who makes the cut.

Employees enrolled in high-deductible plans have an average deductible of $2,296 for single coverage health insurance, compared with $932 for a traditional plan.

EBA’s Wellness Adviser of the Year reveals her biggest professional accomplishment of 2018, the best thing about her job and shares advice to new advisers.

There’s significant growth in value-oriented payment methods, but the jury is out on whether these new methods improve the quality of care and make it more affordable.

The insurer is betting that broader coverage of severe medical conditions for a period of of time will attract employers and employee benefit brokers.

Employees enrolled in high-deductible plans have an average deductible of $2,296 for single coverage health insurance, compared with $932 for a traditional plan.

Brokers with access to these exchanges remain in a strong position to offer small group clients benefit plan designs that meet a variety of employee needs.

IRS rules allow clients in certain circumstances to tap their retirement accounts before the age of 59 1/2 without a 10% penalty. But this still should be considered a last resort, an expert says.

There’s significant growth in value-oriented payment methods, but the jury is out on whether these new methods improve the quality of care and make it more affordable.

How Purdue University’s Candace Shaffer, EBN’s Benefits Leadership in Healthcare winner, tackled chronic diseases.

Management must realize that their workplace is not spared by the national epidemic of painkiller abuse. Here are steps to reduce their employees’ risk and loss of productivity.

First offered by large Silicon Valley companies, time-saving benefits are now spreading to employers and industries of all kinds.

The primary agent of death is no longer ordinary prescription painkillers. It’s illicit fentanyl, often mixed with heroin or some other street drug.