Healthcare benefits

Steve Kelly of ELAP Services envisions fair pricing scenario in response to health system consolidation.

The CVS Health Inc.-Aetna Inc. tie-up is in the shade after last week's announcement of a health partnership between Amazon.com Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and JPMorgan Chase.

Strategic Benefit Advisors prescribes strategies to manage the single largest driver of rising healthcare cost trend.

There are four ways to make the two healthcare spending accounts work together, but they are often under-utilized.

Lori Lucas has been named the new head of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, effective immediately.

The 2018 EBA Rising Star in Advising is lowering healthcare costs for self-funded employers by boosting their benefits and improving health outcomes — resulting in unspent premiums.

Some big names in healthcare want to fix what they see as a broken system. First, they are mending fences.

Providing benefits such as dental and short-term disability is a smart way for employers to try out the insurance arrangement, which has the potential to save money and provide greater transparency.

Pharmacies in Canada, Australia, the U.K. and more can supply Rx medicine for less than half of U.S. prices.

From workplace sexual harassment to an ever-changing regulatory landscape, employers should remain vigilant and compliant in the coming year.

The regulatory environment is one of the toughest in the country and the expansion of PEOs is leading to adverse risk selection.

Pharmacies in Canada, Australia, the U.K. and more can supply Rx medicine for less than half of U.S. prices.

Employers will be relying on brokers to know the ins and outs of each benefit account as they take a larger role in their employees’ health benefit plans.

Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase say they plan to collaborate on a way to offer healthcare services to their U.S. employees more transparently and at a lower cost.

Cost and lack of understanding are the top reasons employers don’t provide perks to their workers.

Insurance expenses have become the country’s No.1 financial concern, providing an urgent need for transparent coverage information.

Collecting cost data and offering consumer-oriented tools to employees can help firms expose the widespread problem of variation in medical price and quality.

The problem can result in financial burdens and lost productivity for employees, but companies can provide support services and tools, including an advocacy service through the benefits plan.

Self-funding, Form 5550s and picking the right HSA vendor are some topics employers should consider in the coming year.

Companies should consider adjusting workloads and provide workers with a flexible schedule so they can go to doctors’ appointments.