Healthcare costs

The java giant joins Darden Restaurants, Sears, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Walgreen and others transitioning benefits distribution to online platforms.

The java giant joins Darden Restaurants, Sears, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Walgreen and others transitioning benefits distribution to online platforms.

Employers can increase historically low engagement by tailoring program structure and motivation techniques to individual employees.

Even as eligibility rates rise, limited workforce participation and smaller premium increases have kept the employer health benefits landscape stable.

Workers’ inability to manage expenses has big consequences for employers, including lower productivity and higher healthcare costs.

Smaller companies are missing out on cost-saving opportunities, including self-funding, narrow networks and pharmacy benefit carve-outs.

Baristas will soon have as much choice in their healthcare as customers do their beverages.

UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer, reported second-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates, driven by growth at its Optum technology and consulting unit.

Employers are increasingly adopting reference based pricing and reimbursements as a way to more effectively determine and control health costs.

The company’s new “Preferred Partnership” arrangement with a select network of local providers aims for cost savings and a superior patient experience.

It’s not as mysterious as it’s often made out to be. New findings clearly show that people are more confident about purchasing health plans when they can address their questions to another person.

Eliminating the tax maximum would fix much of the program's shortfall, but it could also bring unintended consequences.

Expenses associated with the routine birth of a child can differ by more than $20,000, a Castlight Health study finds.

Eliminating the tax maximum would fix much of the program's shortfall, but it could also bring unintended consequences.

Brokers are trying to help employers control costs, but are seeing little success, says HR Technology Advisors’ Joe Markland.

Expenses associated with the routine birth of a child can differ by more than $20,000, a Castlight Health study finds.

The company’s new “Preferred Partnership” arrangement with a select network of local providers aims for cost savings and a superior patient experience.

Employers can harness the power of technology when encouraging employees to make healthier decisions.

Act falls short on shifting the burden of high health-care costs from smoking ailments to the smokers themselves and making progress toward the goal of universal health care, even for smokers, new Yale School of Public Health study finds.

Employers can harness the power of technology when encouraging employees to make healthier decisions.