Healthcare benefits

High-deductible health plans may cut plan-sponsor costs, but covered employees are balking at spending their money on tests and other care they need.

The American Benefits Council and the National Coalition on Benefits is urging the White House to eliminate reporting provisions under the ACA.

Continuing to educate and communicate with employees throughout the year can help control the overwhelming feeling of making benefit selections in the future. Here’s how employers can do it.

The American Benefits Council and the National Coalition on Benefits is urging the White House to eliminate reporting provisions under the ACA.

A minor emergency left one benefit consultant considering how to keep costs down.

It’s almost a guarantee that employers will see increasing pharmacy costs even when the plan is negotiated and managed properly. That’s why it’s important to review PBM contracts carefully.

Recommendation tools are not only helping workers choose more appropriate health plans, they are also educating them as to the value of their benefits, says Willis Towers Watson’s Rob Harkins.

For most payers and self-funded employer plans, air ambulance flights an out-of-network charge that can be staggering.

Proper rest is often a forgotten component of employee wellness, says researcher Alyssa Cairns, who shares how to make it a priority.

While workers with prescription lenses worry about exposure to harmful wave lengths, they are confused if their current eyewear offers proper safeguards.

President Donald Trump said the process for coming up with a replacement for the Affordable Care Act could stretch into 2018, a longer time frame than he previously indicated.

While workers with prescription lenses worry about exposure to harmful wave lengths, they are confused if their current eyewear offers proper safeguards.

The underutilized benefit is appealing to millennial workers, says expert CrisDee Plambeck.

Health wonks on both sides of the aisle debate the pros and cons of the GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Some Republicans in Congress are starting to talk more about trying to “repair” Obamacare, rather than simply calling for “repeal and replace.”

The National Business Group on Health outlines ideas for confronting soaring costs.

Health wonks on both sides of the aisle debate the pros and cons of the GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Nominee had sided with Hobby Lobby Stores, whose owners objected to providing the birth-control coverage required under Obamacare.

While finances and home life still are leading causes of pressure for employees, general stress levels are down. And wellness programs may be helping.

Republican leaders are pushing back a deadline on putting in place a replacement of the Affordable Care Act.