Preparing for open enrollment: Rx benefits redesign holds promise for cost control
Key to cost containment lies in partnering with transparent PBMs, a more thoughtful approach to prescribing GLP-1s and encouraging the uptake of biosimilars.
Healthcare costs
Web Seminar Smarter Benefits: How Data-Driven Strategies Are Reshaping Employee Health Plans
The landscape of employee benefits continues to evolve, and data will be a greater influence for all employers.
Benefit managers share their 7 open enrollment best practices
From generational insights to AI-powered tools, benefit managers share their strategies for running a smooth and impactful open enrollment.
Preparing for open enrollment: Generational tipping point shaping adviser strategies
Communication challenges will include personalizing benefit messaging to five generations working side by side, and designing affordable healthcare coverage.
Employers face 6.5% benefit cost surge in 2026 — how benefit leaders can prepare
Health benefit costs are set to rise at the fastest pace in 15 years, but there are ways to control costs while supporting employees.
Here’s how much employees need to save for healthcare in retirement
The Milliman 2025 Retiree Health Cost Index reveals that a 65-year-old couple may need up to $388,000 for medical expenses in retirement.
Healthcare costs projected to rise 9% in 2026
From rising pharmacy spend to cancer care, 2026 healthcare costs pose new challenges, according to Business Group on Health's annual report.
New report reveals employees are underprepared for retirement and healthcare costs
Employees aren't saving enough for retirement or for the costs associated with healthcare and caregiving needs.
Career moves: Bright forecast seen for health plan advisers
Benefit advisers who transitioned to healthcare from the retirement space are bullish about the future of price transparency and fee disclosure.
Retirees have no financial plan: How benefit managers can help employees now
Less than half of current retirees think they will have enough savings in retirement. Can benefit managers intervene before it's too late?
Soaring healthcare costs driven by GLP-1s and mental health needs
The high monthly costs of GLP-1s — ranging from $1,000 to $1,500 — are placing considerable financial pressure on healthcare plans.
Career moves: Why these retirement advisers shifted to healthcare
In this multi-part series, advisers share how the transition from retirement to healthcare changed their client strategies.
How to tailor your financial wellness benefits to meet generational needs
Gen Z, millennials and baby boomers all need different levels of support through their workplace benefits to manage money stress.
Lyra’s new AI-powered platform provides benefit managers with immediate ROI
AI offers continuous feedback by analyzing employee mental health data, identifying necessary areas of investment.
How trauma changed an adviser’s approach toward ‘dysfunctional’ healthcare system
Matt Ohrt didn't know much about the dysfunctional U.S. healthcare system until immersing himself in the details changed everything.
Retirement readiness score points to troubling gaps
IRALOGIX looked at retirement preparedness across five key areas, finding that Americans were struggling with nearly all of them.
Vigilance on vetting PBMs will stem litigation
Amid high-profile, class-action lawsuits over inflated prescription drug prices, advisers are urged to cement a fiduciary process for employer clients.
Can a comic book hero rescue healthcare?
Chris Wolpert learned the power of publishing in getting across his benefits-advising message, earn street cred, and court prospective clients.
Road to recovery: Patient advocacy, pain management critical for MSK
Advisers with spinal issues of their own learned first hand how to improve the design and management of high-cost health plan claims.
Road to recovery: Self-funded care cuts through the noise
Utilizing a cash-pay model helped several advisers find recovery from their MSK conditions.
