Healthcare benefits

With more than 22,000 benefits and HR professionals, there was plenty to talk about at the 2018 Society for Human Resource Management meeting.

Developing a financial wellness program and providing and promoting stress-relief activities are among the ways employers can take action.

The world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies, looking to sell a new type of cancer drug that could transform treatment, are grappling with an unusual challenge: finding patients.

The CEO of the Amazon-JPMC-Berkshire Hathaway aims to address the “tapeworm” eating the U.S. economy.

By continually reviewing prescription benefit policies and adapting them to current clinical information, employees are limited to their first exposure to addictive painkillers.

Atul Gawande receives high praise from industry professionals; however determining who will support his plans remains a mystery.

By passing this popular bipartisan legislation now, Congress can help make coverage and care more affordable for everyone.

Atul Gawande, the surgeon and journalist who has written extensively about America’s failure to grapple with an inefficient healthcare system, has been named to head a new venture for Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase.

Smaller insurers are often hesitant at first. But encouraged by benefit brokerages like Lockton Companies, they are increasingly embracing this cost saving paradigm.

From the opioid epidemic to alcoholism, executives can play an important role in creating a culture and leading a conversation around abuse prevention.

To provide real cost savings for their employer clients, next-generation benefits advisers are casting off the health insurance carriers and abandoning the traditional way of procuring healthcare.

By passing this popular bipartisan legislation now, Congress can help make coverage and care more affordable for everyone.

Only 39% of American workers are satisfied with what their job offers and 61% are willing to take a cut in salary for a better package.

As nearly one in five U.S. workers has a part-time job, companies need to extend benefit packages.

For employers looking to amp up wellness programs that help workers quit, financial incentives might be a new avenue to consider.

Smaller insurers are often hesitant at first. But encouraged by benefit brokerages like Lockton Companies, they are increasingly embracing this cost saving paradigm.

You can’t solve a healthcare supply chain problem with insurance, says one expert.

As nearly one in five U.S. workers has a part-time job, companies need to extend benefit packages.

Firms such as AIMM and Claim DOC are showing brokers and employer clients just how costly claims are becoming and where to find alternative avenues of care.

A 1,000-person firm could lose more than $80,000 annually to migraine-related health costs and lost work time according to a new report out from the Integrated Benefits Institute.