Health and wellness

With the proposed GOP ACA bill significantly expanding health savings accounts, it’s imperative that employees understand how they work and why they’re important.

The Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act, which clarifies legality of biometric testing in well-being plans, advances in the House.

Jordan Hersh, VP of product strategy and development at NX Health Network, helps clients overcome the challenge through customized networks.

With the proposed GOP ACA bill significantly expanding health savings accounts, it’s imperative that employees understand how they work and why they’re important.

The introduced AHCA includes the possibility of new state requirements and a postponement of the Cadillac tax.

Well-being programs utilizing a highly personalized approach tend to see greater employee support as well as increased medical cost savings.

From repealing tax penalties to expanding savings vehicles, the AHCA contains several proposals to help with compliance burdens and insurance expenses.

The American Health Care Act lacks focus on health priorities and sustainability, says benefits expert Francois Millard.

Tax credits, health savings accounts seek to help individuals pay for health insurance.

By removing the ACA’s employer mandate, GOP legislation could give advisers the opportunity to more closely customize benefits.

Reference-based and relative pricing eradicate hidden fees, advance transparency, elevate healthcare consumerism, advocates say.

Well-being programs utilizing a highly personalized approach tend to see greater employee support as well as increased medical cost savings.

With price considerations a top priority, look for companies like Aetna to reduce expenses through technological advances.

Maximum ROI on the service comes from strong communication, detailed data tracking and offering a broad range of care option.

There’s more work to do, but the American Health Care Act helps advisers to do their jobs by removing regulatory burdens on employer-sponsored benefits.

The introduced AHCA includes the possibility of new state requirements and a postponement of the Cadillac tax.

Agent commissions still included as part of calculation in GOP health plan, but NAIFA, NAHU, other broker groups working to engineer a solution.

By removing the ACA’s employer mandate, GOP legislation could give advisers the opportunity to more closely customize benefits.

Maximum ROI on the service comes from strong communication, detailed data tracking and offering a broad range of care option

The proposed bill cuts taxes for wealthy people, ends Medicaid as we know it to help pay for those tax cuts, reduces the number of Americans who can afford health insurance, and angers such a wide variety of voting constituencies that it is effectively dead on arrival, writes Bloomberg Gadfly Columnist Max Nisen.