Why Microsoft revamped its fertility benefits plan
To keep competitive, the tech titan looked to overhaul its package to design a more optimized program for healthy pregnancies and support fertility decisions across a broader range of life stages.
Healthcare benefits
Is your fertility benefit excluding some employees?
Why one fertility doctor is advocating for employers to expand IVF and fertility benefit programs for LGBTQ employees.
Think your employee is faking sickness? Here’s what you can do
A workforce management expert walks HR pros through the process of certifying employee medical leave, and how to approach questionable requests.
Producers seen as critical to direct primary care success
The distribution channel includes about 8,500 benefit brokers, advisers and insurance agents who see greater value in a flat-rate model without claims.
Benefits Think Self-funding can create real savings for employers
While healthcare admin costs are fixed, claims costs are variable. And with careful management, you can reduce this second bucket by 15% or more.
Benefits Think Ask Benny: How can employers find better value for their healthcare dollar?
It’s a tough mission given the providers have the market power — but there are steps to take.
Suzanne Delbanco
Catalyst for Payment Reform
Workplace wellness programs barely move the needle
While the programs have grown to become an $8 billion industry, a new large-scale study finds the benefits to healthcare costs may be falling short.
Online master’s program schools advisers on benefit strategies
The University of Lynchburg’s new degree aims to provide real world benefits experience.
How 60 of the nation’s biggest employers are uniting to fight the benefits status quo
A group called the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable, representing more than 8 million workers, is partnering with health startups to transform employee care — and change the industry in the process.
Benefits Think How healthcare innovation helped save my life
A direct primary care model saved me from having a horrible health outcome. Can we embrace other new ideas to turn a broken system around?
Kathryn Mayer
Employee Benefit News
Benefit pros on the move: MetLife, Springbuk, AmerisourceBergen
Employers are hiring and promoting executives in the insurance, digital health and advising industries.
Healthcare: The barrier to retirement employers are helping tear down
Employer clients are embracing HSAs, and forging new trails, to help curb the cost of healthcare.
To improve healthcare, employers must move beyond the bottom line
Cambia Health CEO Mark Ganz says benefits managers should focus on creating trust among employees to better care.
Healthcare: The barrier to retirement employers are helping tear down
Employers are embracing HSAs, and forging new trails, to help curb the cost of healthcare.
Benefits Think Improving diabetes care through innovative technology
Patient care can be enhanced by glucose monitoring technology, but it should never replace personalized care.
Carolyn Bradner Jasik
Omada Health
Benefits Think How healthcare innovation helped save my life
A direct primary care model saved me from having a horrible health outcome. Can we embrace other new ideas to turn a broken system around?
Kathryn Mayer
Employee Benefit News
How 60 of the nation’s biggest employers are uniting to fight the benefits status quo
A group called the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable, representing more than 8 million workers, is partnering with health startups to transform employee care — and change the industry in the process.
Benefits Think Empowering employees to design their own health plans
A lesson for benefit advisers: What happens when an employer uses gamification to develop a benefits plan?
Zack Pace
CBIZ
Pinterest: Traditional insurance ‘was letting us down’
The social media company says it adopted a self-funded healthcare model due to frustration over its previous provider’s prices and services.
Benefits Think Reference-based pricing could be the solution to rising healthcare costs
As the price of prescription drugs soar, advisers need to find more innovative strategies to help clients lower costs.
David Henka
ActiveRADAR