Health insurance

Elimination of the Cadillac tax and the employer mandate could be on the table, but so too could be the tax exclusion on employer-based health plans.

By prioritizing not just employee engagement but action and monitoring, employers can maximize their investment and improve health and flatten costs.

Elimination of the Cadillac tax and the employer mandate could be on the table, but so too could be the tax exclusion on employer-based health plans.

Top Senate Republicans are trying to move on from their partisan drive to replace the ACA despite urging from President Donald Trump to keep seeking a broad alternative to President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement.

The truth is that group plans typically earn a percentage of total expenditures, and it is in representatives’ best interest for medical services to cost as much as possible.

Assessing and monitoring family history and lifestyle-based risk factors and giving employees access to experienced specialists are among the underused tactics companies should embrace.

HHS Secretary Tom Price said Sunday that “no decision’s been made” on whether to continue key ACA subsidies to health-insurance companies, but that the administration’s job is “to follow the law of the land.”

Republicans in Congress have been unable agree on a way to repeal and replace Obamacare – and now they’re divided on whether they should give up on their GOP-only approach.

After failing to repeal or replace the ACA, Senate Republicans are slimming down their ambitions to target the one piece of the health law they loathe most.

Assessing and monitoring family history and lifestyle-based risk factors and giving employees access to experienced specialists are among the underused tactics companies should embrace.

The Senate rejected a simple repeal of the ACA on Wednesday, still in the early stages of an unpredictable floor debate on healthcare amid significant doubts that Republicans can muster the 50 votes needed to pass any kind of bill.

The Senate rejected Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s healthcare proposal late Tuesday at the start of several days of debate with no clear idea of what ACA-replacement plan the senators will ultimately be asked to pass.

Senate Republicans agreed to begin floor debate on healthcare legislation, a hard-fought step amid uncertainty about exactly what plan senators will ultimately be asked to vote on.

First seen as a silver bullet to cut costs, employers now know the true value of the platform, Willis Towers Watson mid-market exchange head Rob Harkins says.

Next week could be a key test over whether Republicans have any chance at delivering on their seven years of promises of repealing and replacing the ACA.

The latest plan by Senate Republicans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 22 million in a decade.

A Republican fallback plan to repeal all of the ACA without a replacement health program would lead to 32 million more people uninsured than under current law.

Workers do not believe that the possible dismantling of Obamacare would have a major impact on them them and their families.

Even with the Republicans’ failed effort, there may be additional opportunities for relief from ACA requirements in the coming months.

New data technologies are making it possible for even the smallest employers to fund their own health plans