Benefits Think How to combat the 6 health conditions that most undermine productivity
Employers need to work to address employee depression, migraines, obesity, diabetes, arthritis and cancer.
Healthcare costs
Benefits Think Helping clients put an end to presenteeism
Here are ways to combat the six most common health conditions that undermine productivity.
It’s high time Gen X takes retirement seriously
Many Gen Xers do not have enough retirement savings even as they approach their peak earning years.
Partners turned into prey as insurers, drug plans get squeezed
The drug supply chain is being drawn even more taut, and the power of the big players even greater.
Amazon isn’t only retail giant trying to remake healthcare
Walmart has been buying health care for its workers directly from providers in six different regions – bypassing insurers who usually negotiate with doctors and hospitals.
Benefits Think What employers need to know about today’s critical illness insurance
The plans already offer employees strong coverage – and carriers are making their plans even.
Pam Jenkins
Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company.
High costs driving government to take drug makers to task
White House, states calling for greater price transparency and accountability.
Benefits Think How employers can seek greater value from their PBMs
Many firms aren’t satisfied with their prescription drug costs — but there are ways to change that problem, says consultant Chuck Reynolds.
Chuck Reynolds
Benfield
Benefits Think What advisers need to know about today’s critical illness insurance.
The plans already offer employees strong coverage – and carriers are making their plans even.
Pam Jenkins
Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company.
The future according to young benefit advisers
A trio of EBA Rising Stars discuss the challenges of working in their father firms, why new ideas matter and what impact Amazon and Apple will have on healthcare’s future.
Helping clients move beyond compliance
ERISA attorney and benefits adviser Suzannah Gill teaches middle-market employers how to manage their healthcare costs.
What’s behind Apple and Amazon’s healthcare moves?
Employers take note: Industry expert Lindsay Resnick says runaway costs are driving employers of all stripes to reject the benefit market’s status quo.
Collective health bets employers are fed up with health expenses
Collective Health Inc. has raised a fresh infusion of investor cash as it seeks to win over more firms frustrated with a fragmented, costly market.
Benefits Think Here’s how premium increases are calculated (and how to avoid them)
By understanding what goes into prices, employers can have leverage at the negotiation table with the insurance carrier.
Ray DePaola
Corporate Synergies
IRS lowers family HSA contribution
The annual limitation on deductions for an individual with family coverage will be $6,850 in 2018, $50 less than previously announced.
Business groups urge immediate action to stabilize health care market
The American Benefits Council and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are among the organizations calling on Congress to pass proposals that would establish a premium reduction program.
Telemedicine still faces roadblocks despite employee enthusiasm
Workers say they like the idea of virtual care, but employers face an uphill battle when getting them to forego the ER or urgent care center.
Benefits Think Why are advisers letting insurers run rampant?
Today’s healthcare providers are largely unaccountable and unaudited in terms of their pricing and underlying costs.
Matt White
Employee Benefit Group
Benefits Think Here’s how premium increases are calculated (and how to avoid them)
By understanding what goes into prices, employers can have leverage at the negotiation table with the insurance carrier.
Ray DePaola
Corporate Synergies
Many of the biggest companies already formed a healthcare alliance like the Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan plan — is it working?
Large U.S. businesses, including American Express and Verizon, came together two years ago to form Health Transformation Alliance, which has now doubled in size.
