Healthcare benefits

With employees now seeking targeted, personalized options, employers should turn to solutions such as medical opinion and decision-support services.

Before advising employers to make significant plan adjustments, ask what their employees care about when selecting benefits.

Firms seeking high engagement in health plans should look at programs in their entirety and gauge the opinion of employees.

Renewal rates in 2017 exceed five-year average, suggest employees shouldering greater cost-shifting burden, according to UBA.

With employees now seeking targeted, personalized options, employers should turn to solutions such as medical opinion and decision support services.

Hours after House Republicans jubilantly passed their tax bill, their colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee approved a far different version – one that postpones difficult questions as lawmakers rush to refashion much of the U.S. economy on a tight deadline.

As lawmakers continue to develop major overhauls affecting employers, advocacy among benefits professionals has never been more important, says Hank Jackson.

House Republicans passed their version of legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax code by slashing the corporate tax rate, lowering tax burdens for most individuals and adding an estimated $1.4 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade.

Firms seeking high engagement in health plans should look at programs in their entirety and gauge the opinion of employees.

Before employers put their plans on the chopping block, they should ask themselves what their employees care about when selecting benefits and if they are able to educate workers on the strategy.

Revisions to the Senate Republican’s tax-overhaul plan would create heftier upfront tax breaks for the middle class and small businesses -- and then wipe them off the books by 2026.

Renewal rates in 2017 exceed five-year average, suggest employees shouldering greater cost-shifting burden, according to UBA.

A large part of the expenses associated with these ailments, calculated by IFEBP, are tied to employee absence and disability.

The combined financial impact of medical price and productivity loss makes conditions including depression and anxiety costly among U.S. workers, but employers can help.

Programs shouldn’t rely on incentives, says Limeade’s chief people officer.

President Donald Trump named former Eli Lilly & Co. executive Alex Azar to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

The perk costs between $8 and $15 per employee per month, depending on age.

The perk costs between $8 and $15 per employee per month, depending on age.

With retirement and healthcare benefit outcomes still uncertain, the House Republican tax plan still hosts a slew of possible benefit plan changes.

The home improvement store partnered with healthcare concierge company Accolade to manage its population health more efficiently.