Healthcare benefits

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.

How advisers and employers can fine-tune communications to better educate workers about plans and perks.

How the concept of paying employees to encourage certain behaviors is making its way into other areas of benefits that advisers need to know about.

Hospital market power, not technologies or regulation, is behind escalating prices, says benefits expert Joseph Jenkins, M.D.

The majority of employers expect the importance of non-traditional benefits to grow over the next three to five years, fueled in part by the changing demands of employees.

How advisers and employers can fine-tune communications to better educate workers about plans and perks.

Steve Miller, the pharmacy benefit manager’s chief medical officer, addresses the key cost drivers and what the PBM is doing to guard against increases.

Hospital market power, not regulation or new medical technologies is behind escalating prices, says benefits expert Joseph Jenkins, M.D.

Nearly nine in 10 adults spend more than two hours each day using a digital device, all the more reason for employers to promote their vision plans.

Generic drugs are usually significantly cheaper for plan sponsors than brand-name drugs. Here’s a look at 10 drugs coming off patent in 2016. And although the FDA hasn’t yet approved generics for many of the following blockbuster drugs that are coming off patent this year, in most cases there are generics in the pipeline, according to Dickson Data Blog.

Steve Miller, the pharmacy benefit manager’s chief medical officer, addresses the key cost drivers and what the PBM is doing to guard against increases.

Looking over SOCs will help assess what controls are in place and ensure a client’s benefit plans meets ERISA guidelines.

Michael Thompson discusses how the National Business Coalition on Health plans to address consolidation in the benefits industry and a proposal for a well-being institute.

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

Employers are familiar with wellness incentives, but the concept of paying employees to encourage certain behaviors is making its way into other areas of benefits.

Nearly nine in 10 adults spend more than two hours each day using a digital device, all the more reason for employers to promote their vision plans.