Healthcare costs

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to keep in place the ACA’s protection against higher health-insurance premiums for people with pre-existing conditions when they buy individual coverage.

If the GOP moves forward with it, companies will lose a major incentive to provide benefits and the true problem — reducing costs — will not be addressed, says adviser Craig Hasday.

Advisers can help employers make better decisions by teaching leadership to be smarter consumers, says The Graham Company’s Dan Jordon.

Pratter application is able to identify by ZIP code known charges and claim allowables before services are actually rendered.

If the GOP moves forward with it, companies will lose a major incentive to provide benefits and the true problem — reducing costs — will not be addressed, says adviser Craig Hasday.

Concerns about cost, flexibility and complications often keep employers from offering coverage.

The growing use of HDHPs and CDHPs is further pushing employee engagement in making better healthcare decisions, with an additional increase in wellness program awareness and participation.

The popular procedure can lead employees to pursue unnecessary and costly medical intervention.

Small and midsize businesses covering, on average, 73% of their employees’ costs, new report finds.

The popular procedure can lead employees to pursue unnecessary and costly medical intervention.

Companies report greater control of choices and employers express satisfaction with overall experience, Willis report finds.

Concerns about cost, flexibility and complications often keep employers from offering coverage, but advisers can clear up the confusion.

After finding benefits on private exchanges, employees wish to return to this method of selecting services, finds a Willis Towers Watson survey.

Barclays, RBS, Unilever and Bupa UK tackle well-being programs, according to a new survey from The Conference Board.

Expanding clinical consultations, utilizing available data and studying drug effectiveness are top avenues to plan improvement.

There’s no way for employees to become successful healthcare consumers if they can’t quickly research the estimated price of medical procedures and prescription drugs.

Younger employees are more actively engaged in picking a plan and making cost-conscious healthcare decisions than older employees, new EBRI study says.

Benefits Technology Innovator Rod Reasen created Springbuk, which unifies mountains of analytics to help employers forecast healthcare spending and target at-risk workers.

The projected number of Americans covered, premium increases and overall costs will all have an impact on workplace-provided healthcare, says Arthur Tacchino.

EBN Benefits Technology Innovator Rod Reasen created Springbuk, which unifies mountains of analytics to help employers forecast healthcare spending and target at-risk workers.