Help clients come to grips with long-term care
Even high-net-worth clients are reluctant to discuss LTC planning, a new survey finds.
Healthcare costs
Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan health venture takes aim at middlemen
The health venture established will take aim at intermediaries in the healthcare system as a part of a broad effort to reduce wasteful spending
A number to avoid when discussing healthcare costs with clients
Advisors should frame health care costs as an annual expense rather than a lump sum, which is demotivating for investors, according to Vanguard.
Finding cancer patients is pharma industry’s unlikely challenge
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.
Gawande says goal is better healthcare for 1 million workers
The CEO of the Amazon-JPMC-Berkshire Hathaway aims to address the “tapeworm” eating the U.S. economy.
BeneCard’s value-based care model to opioid scripts cuts doses to five days
By continually reviewing prescription benefit policies and adapting them to current clinical information, employees are limited to their first exposure to addictive painkillers.
Does Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan’s new healthcare venture leader fit the bill?
Atul Gawande receives high praise from industry professionals; however determining who will support his plans remains a mystery.
Benefits Think CREATES Act will lower prescription drug costs
By passing this popular bipartisan legislation now, Congress can help make coverage and care more affordable for everyone.
Greg Gierer
America’s Health Insurance Plans
Dimon, Bezos, Buffett tap Harvard’s Gawande for health firm
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.
Warming to self-insurance
Smaller insurers are often hesitant at first. But encouraged by benefit brokerages like Lockton Companies, they are increasingly embracing this cost saving paradigm.
Benefits Think CREATES Act will lower prescription drug costs
By passing this popular bipartisan legislation now, Congress can help make coverage and care more affordable for everyone.
Greg Gierer
America’s Health Insurance Plans
Utz Quality Foods treats employees to onsite clinic
The snack maker finds cost savings and better employee health with onsite primary care.
Cash speaks louder than traditional smoking cessation aids
For employers looking to amp up wellness programs that help workers quit, financial incentives might be a new avenue to consider.
Warming to self-insurance
Smaller insurers are often hesitant at first. But encouraged by benefit brokerages like Lockton Companies, they are increasingly embracing this cost saving paradigm.
Utz Quality Foods treats employees to onsite clinic
The snack maker finds cost savings and better employee health with onsite primary care.
Self-insurance viewpoints: Employers lead the charge
You can’t solve a healthcare supply chain problem with insurance, says one expert.
New Obamacare lawsuit looks like another loser
A lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act may well turn out to be a bigger story in the news than in the courts.
Medical management firms pull the curtain back on healthcare provider costs
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.
Migraines giving employers a headache
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.
Cash speaks louder than traditional smoking cessation aids
For employers looking to amp up wellness programs that help workers quit, financial incentives might be a new avenue to consider.
