Large employers take nuanced approach to HDHP implementation
While just over half of companies with more than 1,000 employees offer at least one high deductible health plan, few have fully replaced traditional plans with the HDHP.
Healthcare costs
Benefits Think Excessive treatment and cost at core of U.S. healthcare crisis
Other countries and some innovative firms here consistently deliver equal or better quality care at dramatically lower cost, betraying the idea that conventional U.S. healthcare is superior or even appropriate.
Brian Klepper
Worksite Health Advisors
Benefits Think How to keep employees happy without breaking the bank
As costs continue to grow, employers should focus on utilizing smart benefits technology to create individualized programs that appeal to every employee.
Daniel Peate
Hixme
Benefits Think ACA’s excise tax not a Cadillac tax
Despite being delayed until 2020, the Affordable Care Act’s so-called Cadillac tax on high-cost plans is still on the horizon and employers need to prepare for it.
Davin Millholland
EPIC
Helping employers avoid tobacco surcharge
The implementation of smoking surcharges should be paired with a robust smoking cessation program, experts say.
Benefits Think Helping self-insured employers meet ACA nutritional counseling requirement
How advisers can assist their clients with the implementation of the required preventative service.
Jason Langheier
Zipongo
Employers aim to avoid tobacco surcharge
To meet legal requirements and realize savings in healthcare premiums, the implementation of smoking surcharges should be paired with a robust smoking cessation program, experts say.
Benefits Think How self-insured employers can meet ACA nutritional counseling requirement
An initial consultation with a registered dietitian can cost as much as $200. Multiply this by the growing number of overweight and at-risk Americans, and employers could face a considerable cost increase.
Jason Langheier
Zipongo
Benefits Think Employees need education about telemedicine
Telemedicine offers potential savings to employers and employees, while improving medical care access and convenience.
Allan Khoury
Willis Towers Watson
SAS on-site clinic lowers worker ER visits
Software analytics firm sees positive results from its campus health center.
Cancer, critical illness insurance offerings on the rise
As the number of consumer-driven health plans continues to increase, employers are looking to voluntary benefits to help offset potential gaps in coverage.
SAS on-site clinic lowers worker ER visits
Software analytics firm SAS sees positive results from its use of on-site health clinics.
Benefits Think The Medicaid shift: Short-term cost savings, long-term business consequences
Shifting employee coverage to Medicaid represents a lost opportunity to improve business processes and may prove costly in the long run for businesses in thin-margin industries that can least afford high absenteeism.U
Brian Gifford
Integrated Benefits Institute
Private exchanges launch disease management programs
In the three years since private health insurance exchanges have reshaped the landscape for managing active employee populations, attention has shifted from enrollment numbers to changes in employee behavior.
Views Maximizing benefit plan design to reduce the costs of cancer
It is estimated that 4.8 million Americans of working age have cancer, and according to a recent study in the journal Cancer.
Barry V. Fortner
ION Solutions, AmerisourceBergen
Q&A: Fidelity exec outlines plans for private exchange
Joe Laurin, president of Fidelity Health Marketplace, discusses how the company’s newly launched private exchange will integrate with its 401(k) recordkeeping business.
Telehealth language barriers focus of new partnership
As the diverse health needs of the U.S. population grow, so does the need for doctors who can understand and empathize with the language and cultural context of their patients.
Effective communication drives DEVA results
Dependent eligibility verification audits are sometimes tough to communicate to employees, but as employers look for financial savings in their health plans, many are contemplating them.