Healthcare benefits

What impresses me most about EBN’s Benefits Professional of the Year isn’t just what she’s done at Facebook, but what she’s trying to do to move the entire industry.

There’s significant growth in value-oriented payment methods, but the jury is out on whether these new methods improve the quality of care and make it more affordable.

The insurer is betting that broader coverage of severe medical conditions for a period of of time will attract employers and employee benefit brokers.

Employees enrolled in high-deductible plans have an average deductible of $2,296 for single coverage health insurance, compared with $932 for a traditional plan.

EBN’s 2018 Benefits Professional of the Year, Renee Albert, has led the social media giant in ramping up paid parental, bereavement and caregiving leave — along with a slew of other enviable benefits. But her most game-changing initiative is calling on other employers to do the same.

Brokers with access to these exchanges remain in a strong position to offer small group clients benefit plan designs that meet a variety of employee needs.

There’s significant growth in value-oriented payment methods, but the jury is out on whether these new methods improve the quality of care and make it more affordable.

How Purdue University’s Candace Shaffer, EBN’s Benefits Leadership in Healthcare winner, tackled chronic diseases.

Management must realize that their workplace is not spared by the national epidemic of painkiller abuse. Here are steps to reduce their employees’ risk and loss of productivity.