Healthcare benefits

Making tweaks to your health savings account communications strategy can increase employee enrollment and contributions.

Addressing musculoskeletal disorders could cut presenteeism and other medical costs in large and small workplaces.

A rumored acquisition could give the nation’s largest employer control of healthcare for its 1.5 million U.S. employees, drive down costs and increase the number of employers looking to disrupt the industry.

These vehicles are already popular, but advisers can help encourage even greater participation and savings.

Addressing musculoskeletal disorders could cut presenteeism and other medical costs in large and small workplaces.

Hailed as a more rational way for employers to pay for healthcare, the case highlight’s the strategy’s risks.

Thanks to a higher level of scrutiny from regulators, many insurers also act as financial managers and this leads employers to find elective benefit alternatives.

Three hundred large hospital systems are teaming up to control rising drug costs. But even their firepower might not be enough.

Without having done much yet, Amazon.com is already transforming U.S. healthcare – and not necessarily for the better.

Hailed as a more rational way for employers to pay for healthcare, the case highlight’s the strategy’s risks.

Businesses worry about steep premium increases after Congress failed to address market stabilization in the spending bill.

NBGH’s Brian Marcotte and National Alliance’s Mike Thompson sound off on how benefits managers need to increase awareness of resources available to workers, and why the C-suite needs to get involved.

The service provides convenience and cost savings while ensuring employees miss fewer work days.

Aetna will pass on the discounts it negotiates on prescription drugs to about 3 million of its members, in the latest move to address complaints about the cost of medicine.

Businesses worry about steep premium increases after Congress failed to address market stabilization in the spending bill.

Most employers recognize that such information is “confidential,” but may not fully understand what that means or what they should do to protect it.

The share of medical spending devoted to administrative costs, including billing, is roughly three times what it is in other affluent countries, and it’s a major reason the United States spends twice as much on healthcare.

The National Business Group on Health identifies nine topics that will effect employer sponsored health coverage over the course of the year.

The growing popularity of perquisites like flexible work schedules, professional development and student loan repayments is catching adviser’s attention.