Healthcare benefits

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.

Employers need to work to address employee depression, migraines, obesity, diabetes, arthritis and cancer.

Here are ways to combat the six most common health conditions that undermine productivity.

The drug supply chain is being drawn even more taut, and the power of the big players even greater.

Walmart has been buying health care for its workers directly from providers in six different regions - bypassing insurers who usually negotiate with doctors and hospitals.

The plans already offer employees strong coverage – and carriers are making their plans even.

White House, states calling for greater price transparency and accountability.

Many firms aren’t satisfied with their prescription drug costs — but there are ways to change that problem, says consultant Chuck Reynolds.

Group will focus on passage of the Commonsense Reporting Act.

The plans already offer employees strong coverage – and carriers are making their plans even.

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

A trio of EBA Rising Stars discuss the challenges of working in their father firms, why new ideas matter and what impact Amazon and Apple will have on healthcare’s future.

Employers take note: Industry expert Lindsay Resnick says runaway costs are driving employers of all stripes to reject the benefit market’s status quo.

Collective Health Inc. has raised a fresh infusion of investor cash as it seeks to win over more firms frustrated with a fragmented, costly market.

By understanding what goes into prices, employers can have leverage at the negotiation table with the insurance carrier.

The annual limitation on deductions for an individual with family coverage will be $6,850 in 2018, $50 less than previously announced.

The American Benefits Council and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are among the organizations calling on Congress to pass proposals that would establish a premium reduction program.