Healthcare benefits

Plan sponsors look to implement health and pharmacy benefit programs that address painkiller addiction and abuse.

SingleCare plans to ‘disrupt’ the benefits market by improving transparency, says founder Rick Bates.

Truveris’ chief technology officer created OneRx, a free prescription benefits and savings app.

As co-founder and CEO, Levin’s vision is to create a centralized, continuously verified, database of health provider information.

SingleCare plans to ‘disrupt’ healthcare benefit market by improving transparency in underserved and non-covered services through its discount program, says founder Rick Bates.

The product fills a gap for organizations without dedicated benefits staff, says Mercer partner Jo-Anne Bloch.

As co-founder and CEO of Vericred, Levin’s vision is to create a centralized, continuously verified, database of health provider information.

The hospitality company surveyed workers and found stress about money was a top concern, particularly for millennial employees.

From the time it takes to administer programs to their supposed lack of value, small organizations shouldn’t let these benefits misconceptions get in the way of offering robust plans, says MetLife’s Jimbo Story.

Despite increasing concern over cancer costs and care, there are gaps in employee coverage and support, finds new research from the Northeast Business Group on Health.

Plan sponsors look to implement health and pharmacy benefit programs that address painkiller addiction and abuse.

The product fills a gap for organizations without dedicated benefits staff, says Mercer partner Jo-Anne Bloch.

The common rationales for separating them into silos are no longer applicable, according to Eric Helman of Hodges-Mace.

Employees lack tools, and education, leaving them poorly equipped to manage high-deductible plans, says Alegeus executive John Park.

Despite increasing concern over cancer costs and care, there are gaps in employee coverage and support, finds new research from the Northeast Business Group on Health.

The three most common rationales for keeping them separate are all wrong, says benefit services expert Eric Helman

Workers lack tools and education, leaving them poorly equipped to manage high deductibles and multiple plan choices, says Alegeus executive.

New medical plans promote primary care and health counseling in an effort to lower employers costs.

While few mid-size employers offer high-deductible plans, in some cases preferred-provider-organization plans carry deductibles high enough to qualify them as HDHPs, according to new research.

There is new evidence that more closely ties periodontitis, better known as gum disease, to heart attacks and stroke.