Feeling under the weather? Stay home
Employers need to promote a culture of wellbeing in the workplace, particularly during cold and flu season, experts says
Healthcare costs
Benefits Think How to know if a health plan meets affordability requirements
Despite the Trump administration’s insistence that it will repeal and replace the ACA, reporting is proceeding as planned.
Arthur Tacchino
SyncStream Solutions
Feeling under the weather? Stay home
Employers need to promote a culture of wellbeing in the workplace, particularly during cold and flu season, experts say.
Benefits Think Employees want comprehensive ancillary benefits
NADP research shows that 75% of employees feel having dental coverage is very important
Jeff Kolesar
Renaissance Dental
Benefits Think Why healthcare literacy needs to be a priority now more than ever
While employers wait around for impending ACA changes, they would be well-served to provide robust education to employees around benefits basics.
Kim Buckey
DirectPath
The year in employer-based healthcare: ACA uncertainty and cost-stemming efforts
Employers weighed on the future of the Affordable Care Act, the new HHS head, drug costs and exchanges in 2016. The debates are far from over for the coming year
ACA sign-ups top 4 million as first deadline approaches
More than 4 million people picked ACA plans in the 39 states that use the federal HealthCare.gov marketplace in the first six weeks of the 2017 sign-up period.
Benefits Think How to know if a health plan meets affordability requirements
Despite the Trump administration’s insistence that it will repeal and replace the ACA, reporting is proceeding as planned.
Arthur Tacchino
SyncStream Solutions
Benefits Think Making American healthcare great again
With the opportunity to fix health reform under Trump, the GOP also has the obligation to get it right, says adviser Craig Hasday.
Craig Hasday
Frenkel Benefits
Benefits Think Why healthcare literacy needs to be a priority now more than ever
While employers wait around for impending ACA changes, they would be well-served to provide robust education to employees around benefits basics.
Kim Buckey
DirectPath
Why private exchanges aren’t a stand-alone strategy
John Caldarella, leader of Aon’s active exchange, sees PBEs as an ‘enabling mechanism’ for employers on the road to CDHPs.
Benefits Think Chicago shows how to save money on healthcare
For the past five years, Chicago has kept its healthcare bill for employees and retirees roughly flat, at about $450 million a year. And reflected in this success are reforms that hold much promise for the future.
Peter R. Orszag
Lazard Freres & Co.
Ohio measure takes aim at Rx costs
After California's drug regulation initiative failed, Ohio is the next state to vote on how to keep prescription prices in check.
Digital coaching platforms being integrated into healthcare plans
Emotional intelligence training benefits employees in financial, mental wellbeing, experts say.
Advising’s top minds tout tech expertise, data transparency and broker sophistication
Speakers at EBA’s 2016 conferences, including Limelight Health’s Michael Lujan, encourage consultants to expand service offerings and take advantage of new business opportunities.
Digital coaching platforms being integrated into healthcare plans
Emotional intelligence training benefits employees in financial, mental well-being, experts say.
Benefits Think Which voluntary products disqualify HSA eligibility?
Enrollment in hospital indemnity, critical illness and accident products can impact the ability of an individual enrolled in a qualified HDHP plan to contribute to a health savings account.
Zack Pace
CBIZ
HHS Secretary selection indicates the ‘seriousness of repealing the ACA’
Tom Price’s nomination has employers hoping the Trump administration will give a “thoughtful relook” to healthcare reform that focuses on cost.
Ohio measure takes aim at Rx costs
After California's drug regulation initiative failed, Ohio is the next state to vote on how to keep prescription prices in check.
Benefits Think How employers can get smart about cost-containment
Strategic use of data is the next frontier for savvy employers to more accurately zero in on how to best spend healthcare benefit dollars, says Businessolver’s Rae Shanahan.
Rae Shanahan
Businessolver