Healthcare benefits

An examination of benefit policies and the travails of a disruptive technology upstart caught the attention of the Employee Benefit Adviser audience in a roller-coaster election year.

Employees are five times more likely to purchase a product recommended by software than not.

Emotional intelligence training benefits employees in financial, mental well-being, experts say.

Enrollment in hospital indemnity, critical illness and accident products can impact the ability of an individual enrolled in a qualified HDHP plan to contribute to a health savings account.

Tom Price’s nomination has employers hoping the Trump administration will give a “thoughtful relook” to healthcare reform that focuses on cost.

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

The sense among some industry experts is that the private exchange market is ripe for even more growth.

Tom Price’s nomination has employers hoping the Trump administration will give a “thoughtful relook” to healthcare reform that focuses on cost.

President-elect Donald Trump said he’ll nominate U.S. Representative Tom Price, one of the main architects of legislation to repeal and replace the ACA, to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The sense among some industry experts is that the private exchange market is ripe for even more growth.

Employees are five times more likely to purchase a product recommended by software than not.

Proponents say the alternative approach to healthcare levels the playing field for mid-market employers.

Even though an employer health plan may entitle workers to some free services, including vaccines and cancer screenings, many are in the dark about what’s available to them.

Employers will have until March 2 to distribute Form 1095.

Employers will have until March 2 to distribute Form 1095.

Anthem Inc.’s proposed merger with Cigna Corp. would reduce health-care competition and raise costs for consumers, U.S. antitrust lawyers will argue Monday when the government goes to court to block the transaction.

Employees should be steered toward high-value care sites, second opinions and the benefits of palliative care early on.

Key Republicans in Congress are cautioning that replacing Obamacare will be a difficult and lengthy process that won’t happen in the first days of President-elect Donald Trump’s administration."