Health and wellness

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.

IFEBP poll notes various applications to improve healthcare decisions and access to care, as well as encourage healthier living.

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

As these offerings become more popular among small and midsize businesses, brokers need to know the details of these plans.

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.

EBA and data analytics firm miEdge present leading brokerages serving groups of 100 and more across a wide range of trades.

Employers have turned to the alternative payment model for Medicare payments for a simple reason: It works.

Employers have turned to the alternative payment model for Medicare payments for a simple reason: It works.

Among current retirees, the numbers aren't much better: 60% of them have not calculated how much health care costs impact their savings.

Jack Stoddard, a longtime healthcare executive, has been named as COO of the healthcare initiative.

Cost of living is a key consideration, but a retiree’s goals and objectives are also important.

The number of uninsured declined to 28.3 million in the first quarter, down from 29.3 million last year.

Benefits managers should start by making sense of big data and helping employees understand their options. The savings will follow.

A decade-long review of disability claims from carrier Unum reflects effects of aging workforce, early intervention.