Healthcare benefits

It’s important for employers to educate workers about available HSAs, HRAs and FSAs so that employees can get the most out of them.

Group health plan costs are expected to rise modestly this year and plan sponsors anticipate a growth in strategies such as telemedicine and high-performance provider networks.

Young workers require a more hands-on approach when learning about insurance offerings, a new MetLife study reveals.

The health system is making strides toward value-based care but much of them are still detrimental for employers and employees.

It takes knowledge and planning, but there are ways to keep health insurance costs from derailing company profits while still offering employees the benefits they need.

Few programs can provide hard data that they solidly increase health outcomes for employees or decrease costs for employer clients.

The U.S. health system is making strides toward value-based care but much of it is still focused on volume, which is detrimental for plan sponsors and employees.

The Northeast Business Group on Health says digital tools can make a difference in controlling chronic conditions among employees.

Despite early successes, many large employers are reluctant to move employees to an online benefits marketplace.

Few programs can provide hard data or credible testimonials showing that they solidly improve health outcomes for employees or cost for benefit plan sponsors.

Despite early successes, many large employers still reluctant to move employees to an online benefits market.

The Northeast Business Group on Health says digital tools can make a difference in controlling chronic conditions among employees.

Affordable Care Act’s loopholes and inefficiencies are creating losses among carriers and they, in turn, are pressing advisers, says Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute.

The key issue for benefit plan sponsors in Zubik v. Burwell is whether the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive-coverage mandate requirements and its accommodation violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Employers can take immediate steps to help hospitals ensure that employees, dependents — and all patients — are in better shape after they leave the hospital than when they went in.

Employers and advisers expect the importance of supplemental benefits to grow, fueled in part by the changing demands of employees.

The looming Cadillac tax is causing clients to be cautious when it comes to contributing to workers’ health savings accounts.

Plan sponsors can take immediate steps to help hospitals ensure that employees, dependents -- and all patients –are in better shape after they leave the hospital than when they went in.

UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s OptumRx unit struck an agreement to ease customers’ access to drugs through Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.’s drugstores, a move to help the business compete with rival pharmacy benefit managers.

The international environmental consulting team offers employees access to mental health therapy 24/7 through its online Learn to Live system.