Healthcare benefits

Expert Jennifer Graff explores the issues employers should consider when making decisions about pharmacy benefit design.

EBA bloggers spent 2016 discussing major changes to employee benefits, including what can be done to stem costs and save adviser salaries.

Employers need to be deliberate about what information they send, how they delivered it and provide a reasons why younger workers should care.

Benchmarking tool in a new study demonstrates reduced workplace distress, increased engagement in ways not previously measured.

With an ever-changing benefits landscape, having an inside look from industry experts is crucial to best strategize how to tackle any oncoming challenges. Over the course of the year, these were some of the top blog contributions received at EBN.

Strategic use of data is the next frontier for savvy advisers to more accurately zero in on how employers can best spend healthcare benefit dollars, says Businessolver’s Rae Shanahan.

Employers need to be deliberate about what information they send, how they delivered it and provide a reasons why younger workers should care.

NADP research shows that 75% of employees feel having dental coverage is very important

While employers wait around for impending ACA changes, they would be well-served to provide robust education to employees around benefits basics.

Employers weighed on the future of the Affordable Care Act, the new HHS head, drug costs and exchanges in 2016. The debates are far from over for the coming year

When looking at the new administration and their plans for ACA, business owners will be considering their role in the new political landscape.

More than 4 million people picked ACA plans in the 39 states that use the federal HealthCare.gov marketplace in the first six weeks of the 2017 sign-up period.

To keep the momentum going into 2017, advisers should follow five trends encouraging growth in supplemental benefits.

With the opportunity to fix health reform under Trump, the GOP also has the obligation to get it right, says adviser Craig Hasday.

While employers wait around for impending ACA changes, they would be well-served to provide robust education to employees around benefits basics.

: Regardless of policy outcome, employers must continue to apply innovative and creative strategies for employee benefits, says Hodges-Mace’s Eric Helman.

When a company with a self-funded plan selects a stop-loss carrier and individual stop-loss coverage, they have the option to include drug expenses in determining high claimant costs.

David Sacks is transitioning to chairman in wake of the tech-based brokerage’s transformative year.

All the noise surrounding the ACA may be hiding the fire that is also burning in the employer healthcare market, says HR Technology Advisors’ Joe Markland.

David Sacks is transitioning to chairman in wake of the tech-based brokerage’s transformative year.