Health and wellness

Addiction recovery costs are skyrocketing for companies, but employee education on drug usage can help stem the tide.

Making tweaks to your health savings account communications strategy can increase employee enrollment and contributions.

Making tweaks to your health savings account communications strategy can increase employee enrollment and contributions.

Employees are putting more and more on their plates, making it challenging to remove themselves from work to get a recharge. These 29 jobs, however, break the mold and allow workers to find the time to unwind.

Addressing musculoskeletal disorders could cut presenteeism and other medical costs in large and small workplaces.

A rumored acquisition could give the nation’s largest employer control of healthcare for its 1.5 million U.S. employees, drive down costs and increase the number of employers looking to disrupt the industry.

These vehicles are already popular, but advisers can help encourage even greater participation and savings.

Addressing musculoskeletal disorders could cut presenteeism and other medical costs in large and small workplaces.

Hailed as a more rational way for employers to pay for healthcare, the case highlight’s the strategy’s risks.

Different threats from major shifts in two industries are pushing Walmart Inc. and health insurer Humana Inc. toward the same solution.

Three hundred large hospital systems are teaming up to control rising drug costs. But even their firepower might not be enough.

The New York hospital system is transitioning to a centralized human capital management to improve health outcomes, reduce employee turnover and save $15 million a year.

Without having done much yet, Amazon.com is already transforming U.S. healthcare – and not necessarily for the better.

Employers should offer employees life coaching and digital health engagement tools, teach mindfulness exercises and reduce the barriers to benefits workers already have.

Hailed as a more rational way for employers to pay for healthcare, the case highlight’s the strategy’s risks.

Businesses worry about steep premium increases after Congress failed to address market stabilization in the spending bill.

The South Carolina-based insurance company is adding the new plans to round out its portfolio of worksite voluntary products.

NBGH’s Brian Marcotte and National Alliance’s Mike Thompson sound off on how benefits managers need to increase awareness of resources available to workers, and why the C-suite needs to get involved.

The service provides convenience and cost savings while ensuring employees miss fewer work days.