Healthcare benefits

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."

Which aspects of the Affordable Care Act will not be repealed, and what will be adjusted?

Advisers can help employees with the challenges of selecting a health plan by giving them a how-to guide with questions and answers.

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

Employers can help employees with the challenges of selecting a health plan by giving them a how-to guide with questions and answers.

The benefits community — and the whole country — will be watching closely to see just how President-elect Trump fires the ACA.

Although the president-elect has not shared many details, advisers and other stakeholders see the ACA playing a big role early on.

Obama suggested areas of the health law to keep during Trump's Thursday meeting with the President.

Even if the ACA is repealed, reformed, or replaced; these six issues must still be addressed, says consultant Rob Thurston.

Benefits professionals will need a crystal ball to determine how the President-elect’s policies will shape up, says SHRM’s Lisa Horn.

It’s official: Donald Trump will soon be our nation’s 45th president. Now the work begins to forecast what the next four years will bring.

President-elect Donald Trump outlined some pieces of his healthcare program, largely following ideas he laid out during his campaign, from a repeal of Obamacare, his predecessor’s signature health law, to language indicating opposition to abortion.

The president-elect wants to take down the ACA, but he does not have it in for advisers, says Sage Benefit Advisers’ Vinnie Daboul.

Employers will “be watching to see how the new administration will maintain or change legislation and regulations impacting benefit plans,” says IFEBP CEO Michael Wilson.

Although the president-elect has not shared many details, advisers and other stakeholders see the ACA playing a big role early on.