Healthcare costs

These programs, coupled with a robust communications plan, can encourage participants to use their health plans more wisely.

Boosting utilization rates is a huge challenge for clients. These strategies from successful companies and top providers can help.

Proactively investing in high-quality care and care coordination can bring increased value to employee health.

Preliminary results from HealthJoy’s new platform show employers can save $6 for every $1 spent on administering rewards.

Boosting utilization rates is a huge challenge for employers. These strategies from successful companies and top providers can help.

Public opinion of the ACA’s excise tax has shifted decisively, as premiums and out-of-pocket costs have soared.

Retirees who outlive their savings are among those most at risk.

These programs, coupled with a robust communications plan, can encourage participants to use their health plans more wisely.

Preliminary results from HealthJoy’s new platform show employers can save $6 for every $1 spent on administering rewards.

Big businesses most likely fear big Medicare expansion in large part because it would lead to a significant tax increase. But looking at any tax increase as an enemy is a mistake.

From physical to mental therapy, bringing healthcare to the consumer will help improve accessibility and increase employee well-being.

Clients should work to identify and help at-risk employees as early as possible.

Top-down culture and increased education are steps employers are taking to break down the stigma surrounding mental health.

Here’s a peek at some of the titles that are top of mind for industry insiders this year.

Top-down culture and increased education are steps employers are taking to break down the stigma surrounding mental health.

A new option may help employers find quality providers who are likely to accept predetermined reimbursements.

With resources like second opinion services and health spending accounts, workers may be able to achieve reductions in health costs.

Employers should work to identify and help at-risk employees as early as possible.

Proposed rules would provide consumers more detail about the actual prices hospitals charge insurers.

“When you can look at [an employee] and say we just saved you that copay, that means something,” one expert says.