Health and wellness

Well-being shouldn’t just be top of mind for employers at the beginning of the New Year. Here’s how to create a year-round program for employees.

Healthy employees mean engaged employees. But how can employers help individualize the programs?

Large corporations have used this model for decades, and now small- and mid-sized businesses are taking notice, says Paul Johnson of Redirect Health.

While finances and home life still are leading causes of pressure for employees, general stress levels are down. And wellness programs may be helping.

Republican leaders are pushing back a deadline on putting in place a replacement of the Affordable Care Act.

Congressional Republicans emerged from a retreat this week aimed at forging agreement on how to repeal and replace Obamacare with little new clarity on the details.

As research connects wellness to increased productivity and performance, companies now see the programs as “must have,” says Virgin Pulse CEO Chris Boyce.

HR and benefits professionals are hoping the new president will kill the Cadillac tax, focus on ever-rising healthcare costs and expand access to health savings accounts.

While finances and home life still are leading causes of pressure for employees, general stress levels are down. And wellness programs may be helping.

Changes may be imminent for the Affordable Care Act but provisions continue to emerge amid the debate for a new plan, say attorneys Jean Hemphill and Edward Leeds.

Healthy employees mean engaged employees. But how can advisers help individualize the programs?

The Affordable Care Act was ‘born broken’ and needs a bipartisan solution to succeed, says lawyer Peter Marathas.

Amid uncertainty, all industry stakeholders can count on one thing: the momentum powering value-based care will continue unhindered.

The President’s action signals to the country his intent at replacing his predecessor’s signature healthcare policy. But companies shouldn’t change course just yet, experts say.

Employers’ No. 1 question is how to position their strategy under the new administration, says adviser Craig Hasday.

The underutilized benefit is appealing to millennial workers, says expert CrisDee Plambeck.

The benefits community — and the whole country — will be watching closely to see just how President Trump fires the Affordable Care Act.

As research connects wellness to increased productivity and performance, companies now see the programs as “must have,” says Virgin Pulse CEO Chris Boyce.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday commanding federal agencies to try to waive or delay requirements of Obamacare that impose economic or regulatory burdens on states, families, the health-care industry and others.

The HR association also calls for repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s unpopular Cadillac tax.