Health and wellness

Once he ‘stopped doing what’s safe,’ the Ohio adviser found group captives can substantially cut expenses for small and midsize employers.

RA medicine accounted for nearly half of specialty drug spend last year, inducing the pharmacy benefit manager to introduce a personalized savings program that could save employers $500,000 a year.

Given the penalty amounts, the importance of keeping an eye out for the IRS statements and acting quickly cannot be overstated, says benefits consultant Zack Pace.

This deal has strategic and financial benefits for Albertsons and helps the grocer avoid a choppy IPO market, but also gets it deeper into the increasingly tough and competitive pharmacy business.

More firms are managing healthcare spending with self-insurance, leaner plan options and pharmacy benefit carve-outs, according to Gallagher research.

2018 EBA Rising Star in Advising Taylor Lindsey works to deliver lower costs for a complex industry.

HHS proposed allowing short-term plans to be sold for coverage periods of up to a year, up from the current maximum of three months.

Throughout the process of handling ID theft, many workers worry about the extent of the fraud and its impact on their financial future.

A plan that includes employee coaching and support teams, financial incentives and prescription management is key.

The growth in U.S. healthcare prices is projected to outpace economy-wide inflation for the first time since 2010.

Grocery chain to buy drugstores in a deal that would accelerate the remaking of the retail and healthcare industries.

Grocer Albertsons will buy drugstore chain Rite Aid in a deal that would accelerate the remaking of the U.S. retail and healthcare industries.

Given the penalty amounts, the importance of keeping an eye out for the IRS statements and acting quickly cannot be overstated, says benefits consultant Zack Pace.

The alliance of Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan is a positive move that will elevate the call for more quality care at a lower cost.

Although the IRS is not currently enforcing aspects of executive benefits in group health plans, employers must stay compliant.

2018 EBA Rising Star in Advising Taylor Lindsey works to deliver lower costs for a complex industry.

Best-in-class employers are pursuing more meaningful solutions to controlling healthcare costs in the talent war.

After Idaho’s Republican governor promised to find creative ways to get around Obamacare, one health plan in the state plans to offer skimpy coverage that may violate many of the law’s protections for patients.

The drugstore retailer will absorb employee premium increases for the upcoming fiscal year and create a paid parental leave program.

Strategic Benefit Advisors prescribes strategies to manage the single largest driver of rising healthcare cost trend.