Medical management firms pull the curtain back on healthcare provider costs
Firms such as AIMM and Claim DOC are showing brokers and employer clients just how costly claims are becoming and where to find alternative avenues of care.
Healthcare benefits
Migraines giving employers a headache
A 1,000-person firm could lose more than $80,000 annually to migraine-related health costs and lost work time according to a new report out from the Integrated Benefits Institute.
Cash speaks louder than traditional smoking cessation aids
For employers looking to amp up wellness programs that help workers quit, financial incentives might be a new avenue to consider.
More employers adopt HSA programs but questions remain
Employees still don’t know the basics of using and saving with a health savings account, according to Fidelity Investments.
Benefits Think Details matter: Medical plan anti-assignment clauses protect employers
There is a growing trend in which out-of-network healthcare providers attempt to bring suit directly against the employer or the employer medical plan.
Gregg Dooge
Foley & Lardner
Benefits Think Is your plan in compliance with mental health, substance abuse parity requirements?
Employers must make sure they are offering the necessary MH and SU services to their employees.
Bruce Davis
Findley
Migraines giving employers a headache
A 1,000-person firm could lose more than $80,000 annually to migraine-related health costs and lost work time according to a new report out from the Integrated Benefits Institute.
Lower-cost benefit alternatives target credit unions
New offering features 16 benefit levels, premium savings, free services, integrated wellness incentives and cash rewards to help attract and retain top talent.
Benefits Think Is your plan in compliance with mental health, substance abuse parity requirements?
Benefit advisers and employers must make sure they are offering the necessary MH and SU services to their employees.
Bruce Davis
Findley
Benefits Think The value-based care challenge: Helping employers tap into quality care
Advisers must guide employers to the right solutions partner who can help them evaluate the best care based on reliable population health data.
Shane Wolverton
Quantros, Inc.
Trump health chief renews call to end key drug-pricing tactic
HHS' Alex Azar told lawmakers that it may be time to eliminate the complex system of rebates that drug companies and pharmacy-benefit managers use to negotiate and set prices.
Lower-cost benefit alternatives target credit unions
New offering features 16 benefit levels, premium savings, free services, integrated wellness incentives and cash rewards to help attract and retain top talent.
Providing a benefits guide path for employees
Midwest Benefit Advisors works with a medical management firm to help plan participants make smart, cost-saving healthcare decisions.
Benefits Think Employees need help in the hunt for cheaper prescriptions
A pharmacy benefit manager can often find true savings to critical drugs in the same neighborhood.
Heidi Rasmussen
Freshbenies
Benefits Think The value-based care challenge: Helping employers tap into quality care
Advisers must guide employers to the right solutions partner who can help them evaluate the best care based on reliable population health data.
Shane Wolverton
Quantros, Inc.
Providing a benefits guide path for employees
Midwest Benefit Advisors works with a medical management firm to help plan participants make smart, cost-saving healthcare decisions.
Benefits Think Employees need help in the hunt for cheaper prescriptions
A pharmacy benefit manager can often find true savings to critical drugs in the same neighborhood.
Heidi Rasmussen
Freshbenies
Benefits Think Can employers force healthcare providers to compete?
Though policy makers may need to step in where market forces fail, businesses should play a more significant role in cutting costs.
Suzanne Delbanco
Catalyst for Payment Reform
Supercuts taps Decisely to offer employee benefits to employees
The hair-salon chain chooses a benefits and HR services firm to deliver services to its franchise owners and workers.
Benefits Think Gauging the risk and rewards of a benefits captive plan
A health plan that pools risk from multiple employers and their employees is only as strong as the health of its participants.
Jeff Miller
Corporate Synergies