Healthcare benefits

In the last year, employers embraced telemedicine, onsite care and financial wellness programs.

Overall growth was modest, but more than 150 mergers and acquisitions, such as the formation of Alera Group, proved it’s a dynamic market.

Employers should educate employees about self-care options, give them access to conservative therapies and address psychological factors to avoid the danger of addiction.

Employers moved to self-funded models, brokers embraced performance-based compensation and care delivery was increasingly tied to referenced-based pricing.

The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped a clash over Houston’s practice of providing benefits to the same-sex spouses of city employees, leaving intact a Texas Supreme Court decision that calls the city’s policy into question.

There are several provisions in the upper chamber’s text that alter existing tax treatment, and experts predict those elements will win out in final law.

ABC president Jim Klein says legislators should act immediately to eliminate the ‘challenging’ compliance provision, and then repeal the ACA’s Cadillac tax.

Employees can schedule appointments and contact nurses when they’re expecting.

The deal is among the biggest healthcare mergers of the past decade, combining the largest U.S. drugstore chain with the third-biggest health insurer.

In addition to a charge for doctor’s services, patients are frequently asked to cover use of the hospital-owned clinic.