Healthcare costs

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.

The move is part of a broader effort to raise productivity by reducing employee time spent traveling to and waiting for care.

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

hCentive’s CEO Sanjay Singh discusses his own frustrations as an employer and how multi-carrier benefit platforms can help mitigate rising costs and limited healthplan options.

Employers are lowering their own premiums through coinsurance and high deductibles. But efforts to help workers control their spending through smarter healthcare decisions have met with less success.

The move is part of a broader effort to raise productivity by reducing employee time spent traveling to and waiting for care.

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

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.

The National Business Group on Health embraces a proposal to eliminate the excise tax, but is wary of efforts to cap the employee income exclusion for health benefits.

By quickly collecting and presenting employee health data, these custom risk engines provide dynamic insights into your employee population with just a few clicks.

Depending on factors like demographics, geography, environment, and heredity, the healthcare-needs profile of an employee base can vary widely, even between companies in the same industry, says AdminaHealth’s Arthur Jonokuchi.