Healthcare benefits

For employers sponsoring high-deductible health plans with health savings accounts, ensuring that the HDHP continuously remains HSA-qualified is no easy task. But this checklist can help.

There is opportunity to bring the health model to the employer-purchaser masses. Payers and niche vendors play a significant role in making that happen.

Arthritis, obesity and depression are among the ailments having the biggest impact on rising plan costs, according to research from the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans.

There is opportunity to bring the health model to the employer-purchaser masses. Payers and niche vendors play a significant role in making that happen.

To mark International Women’s Day, a look at female industry leaders who are transforming the benefits advising field.

With absurd price disparities in healthcare costs, smart employers are refusing to accept disgraceful aspects of the benefits and healthcare status quo.

Telemedicine is an effective option for patients who have trouble getting to the doctor’s office, but complex state laws make it difficult to provide service to everyone.

With absurd price disparities in healthcare costs, smart employers are refusing to accept disgraceful aspects of the benefits and healthcare status quo.

The Avella acquisition came in the same quarter that UnitedHealth purchased Genoa Healthcare, a behavioral pharmacy chain, for about $2.5 billion.

Industry leaders whose unique client management strategies, innovative data manipulation and other industry-leading skills are transforming the field.

Consumers are still not fluent in simple financial concepts, which may lead them to spend more out of pocket on healthcare.

When I first started covering the benefits industry in 2011, there was plenty to write about, and much of the focus involved gloom and doom forecasts over the newly enacted Affordable Care Act. How times have changed.

Consumers are still not fluent in simple financial concepts, which may lead them to spend more out of pocket on healthcare.

Telemedicine is an effective option for patients who have trouble getting to the doctor’s office, but complex state laws make it difficult to provide service to everyone.

As insurance costs rise and wages remain unchanged, some employees are noticing the drain on their take-home pay.