Healthcare costs

In a world of personalized goods and services, why are benefits still one-size-fits-all?

Making second opinions available can increase employee engagement, helping them to feel more informed and empowered about making medical decisions, and lower healthcare costs.

What to know about pharmacy benefit manager contracts.

Disputes between insurers and hospitals are nothing new. But this fight sticks more patients in the middle, worried they’ll have to pay unresolved claims.

Echo Health has launched a premium payment manager tool that is designed to help employers more easily adopt an ICHRA.

In the current system, employees may be paying twice as much and getting something twice as bad.

It’s time to get serious about another path to affordable, high-quality healthcare.

First Choice Health, a provider-owned healthcare organization, is partnering with local hospitals to bring community-based healthcare plans to employers.

With U.S. medical debt soaring, employee benefits companies are seeking solutions for employers and employees alike.

With health insurance deductibles outpacing household income for the past 25 years, supplemental health benefits are gaining more attention.

Only 9% of adults shop around for the best healthcare prices. Healthcare guidance platform Amino seeks to provide clarity to make more employees aware of the No Surprises Act.

The appeal of these companies has grown as employers increasingly seek to address a shortage of high-quality primary care and reduce spending on the health of their workforce.

Employees are concerned that they cannot afford necessary care and are confused about what their health plans cover.

The largest U.S. bank is launching a business called Morgan Health aimed at improving employee benefits and promoting health equity.

COVID concerns led millions of patients to put off routine care and screenings in 2020, so health plans will need to rethink how they forecast expenses.

Mental health needs and disorders are the single most expensive category of health costs for employers of all sizes and across all industries.

Beginning April 1, Humana will join a Cigna purchasing organization called Ascent Health Services to give it access to greater discounts from drugmakers.

Innovative advisers are driving two disruptive benefits trends that both improve the quality of care and reduce year-over-year healthcare costs.

What will happen when patients finally feel comfortable returning to their healthcare providers’ offices? One survey projects a possible 5.3% increase in health plan costs for large employers in 2021.