Healthcare costs

Firms with fewer than 125 workers must proceed with caution when establishing a medical coverage plan, warns Zack Pace.

The Georgia-based health network decreased year-over-year spend by 15.3% while also lowering healthcare costs paid by employees.

There are five key attributes that make a successful combination of high-tech and high-touch actions to drive beneficial health and cost-saving decisions.

Firms with fewer than 125 workers must proceed with caution when establishing a medical coverage plan, warns Zack Pace.

Employers should increase the use of key preventive care services, offer a variety of tools and identify the conditions and employees that cost the organization the most.

Employers should increase the use of key preventive care services, offer a variety of tools and identify the conditions and employees that cost the organization the most.

The Graham-Cassidy repeal bill is dead this week, but benefits executives are banking on Affordable Care Act improvements, including elimination of the Cadillac tax and a bigger focus on controlling healthcare costs.

Senate Republicans gave up on their last-ditch proposal to repeal the ACA Tuesday as opposition in their own ranks ended months of fruitless efforts to gut it.

Senators sponsoring a last-ditch ACA repeal bill scrambled to save it from near-certain death Sunday, circulating a new version aimed at winning over several GOP holdouts.

The advancement of cross-vendor analytics, prescription, engagement and measurement brought on by the democratization of big data is enabling employers to better plan performance, says Hodges-Mace's Eric Helman.