Helping clients move beyond compliance
ERISA attorney and benefits adviser Suzannah Gill teaches middle-market employers how to manage their healthcare costs.
Healthcare industry
What’s behind Apple and Amazon’s healthcare moves?
Employers take note: Industry expert Lindsay Resnick says runaway costs are driving employers of all stripes to reject the benefit market’s status quo.
Collective health bets employers are fed up with health expenses
Collective Health Inc. has raised a fresh infusion of investor cash as it seeks to win over more firms frustrated with a fragmented, costly market.
Benefits Think Here’s how premium increases are calculated (and how to avoid them)
By understanding what goes into prices, employers can have leverage at the negotiation table with the insurance carrier.
Ray DePaola
Corporate Synergies
Under Maryland’s paid sick leave policy, employees earn benefit
The Healthy Working Families Act requires employers to provide up to 40 hours of coverage per year.
Business groups urge immediate action to stabilize health care market
The American Benefits Council and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are among the organizations calling on Congress to pass proposals that would establish a premium reduction program.
Telemedicine still faces roadblocks despite employee enthusiasm
Workers say they like the idea of virtual care, but employers face an uphill battle when getting them to forego the ER or urgent care center.
New employer coalition aims to ease reporting requirements
Group will focus on passage of the Commonsense Reporting Act.
Benefits Think Why are advisers letting insurers run rampant?
Today’s healthcare providers are largely unaccountable and unaudited in terms of their pricing and underlying costs.
Matt White
Employee Benefit Group
Benefits Think Here’s how premium increases are calculated (and how to avoid them)
By understanding what goes into prices, employers can have leverage at the negotiation table with the insurance carrier.
Ray DePaola
Corporate Synergies
Many of the biggest companies already formed a healthcare alliance like the Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan plan — is it working?
Large U.S. businesses, including American Express and Verizon, came together two years ago to form Health Transformation Alliance, which has now doubled in size.
Benefits Think Five ways to contain prescription costs
It’s time to be creative. Here’s practical guidance benefit advisers can share with their clients to help them better control medication expenditures.
Michael A. Perry
BeneCard PBF
Benefits Think Five ways to contain prescription costs
Due to high prices, some employees cannot afford to pay for their of critical medication.
Michael A. Perry
BeneCard PBF
Telemedicine still faces roadblocks despite employee enthusiasm
Workers say they like the idea of virtual care, but employers face an uphill battle when getting them to forego the ER or urgent care center.
Apple to launch health clinics for its employees
The tech giant is the latest employer to take on worker health and wellness as companies look to reduce costs and empower patients.
Problem Solvers Caucus offer bipartisan healthcare action items
Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Tom Reed speak at NAHU’s Capitol Conference sharing House proposals for future insurance legislation.
Will advisers have a seat at the table when Amazon sets healthcare prices?
Delivering medical cost transparency remains elusive as brokers adjust to a new reality.
How advisers can bend the insurance cost curve
Principal at Spangler Strategies, Katy Spangler, spoke with members of NAHU about how to manage health plan spending among clients.
Apple to launch health clinics for its employees
The tech giant is the latest employer to take on worker health and wellness as companies look to reduce costs and empower patients.
CVS Health targets rheumatoid arthritis costs for PBM customers
RA medicine accounted for nearly half of specialty drug spend last year, inducing the pharmacy benefit manager to introduce a personalized savings program that could save employers $500,000 a year.
