Healthcare benefits

Chris McSwain sounds off on the Integrated Benefits Institute’s new initiatives, and why firms need to come together and connect to help solve medical challenges.

Several factors contribute to workers’ failure to use the perks available to them, but employers can help with predictive and preventive approaches.

Advisers are pressed to help clients reduce their health benefits spend while improving outcomes. These tools can help.

Employer clients with high-deductible health plans could be snared by recent legislation in Illinois, Maryland and Oregon.

Several factors contribute to workers’ failure to use the perks available to them, but employers can help with predictive and preventive approaches.

The sports bar and driving range venue implemented SurgeryPlus once it moved to a self-insured health plan and saw a 2.57% return on investment.

Employees say they are likely to move to a new employer for perks such as flexible schedules, bonuses and paid leave.

CVS Health, Estée Lauder Companies and Lowe’s are among hundreds of companies adding enhanced perks to address the growing concerns of today’s workforce.

It’s easy to fault the insurance industry, but dealing with the government could be a nightmare. This is why benefit advisers need to step in.

A raft of under-popularized strategies are helping advisers reign in their clients healthcare costs.

The firms partnered to offer an integrated platform where employees can enroll in their workplace retirement, medical and voluntary benefits plans.

The sports bar and driving range venue implemented SurgeryPlus once it moved to a self-insured health plan and saw a reduction in costs.

Employer clients with high-deductible health plans could be snared by recent legislation in Illinois, Maryland and Oregon.

Employers may not be able to remove the stigma of behavioral illness, but they can invest in quality health programs where early identification and referrals to treatment can be encouraged and facilitated.

Helping employees care for their physical, emotional and financial health, as well as maintain a healthy work-life balance, will ensure they continue to show up for work and are in top form while on the job.

The Integrated Benefits Institute announced a new initiative that aims to join together companies in finding solutions to rising health costs and chronic employee conditions.

Sales are booming for this voluntary product that fills numerous coverage gaps.

Employers may not be able to remove the stigma of behavioral illness, but they can invest in quality health programs where early identification and referrals to treatment can be encouraged and facilitated.

The Integrated Benefits Institute announced a new initiative that aims to join together companies in finding solutions to rising health costs and chronic employee conditions.

Companies should hold providers accountable and insist that employees receive evidence-based treatments.