Healthcare industry

Last week’s executive order may unleash a chaotic landscape where employers, employees and advisers don’t understand the new rules.

In a new book, private exchange pioneer Alan Cohen touts advantages of choice in the employer-sponsored healthcare market.

Companies have consistently rejected the idea of terminating their health plans and sending employees to buy their own coverage, but attitudes may be shifting.

Last week’s executive order may unleash a chaotic landscape where employers, employees and advisers don’t understand the new rules.

Putting the president’s recommendations into practice will likely take time and association plans come with the potential for abuse.

Health Reimbursement Arrangements are poised to become an even more attractive option to flexibly fund employee healthcare costs, says attorney Harrison Stone.

They often disregard the coverage, risking significant financial and familial consequences

Insurance markets work best when there’s competition.

Getting top brass buy-in and the right technology partners are essential.

The Trump administration will let employers opt out of providing health plans that cover birth control, weakening a requirement put in place by the ACA as part of a wider push to expand religious freedom.

Firms with fewer than 125 workers must proceed with caution when establishing a medical coverage plan, warns Zack Pace.

Firms with fewer than 125 workers must proceed with caution when establishing a medical coverage plan, warns Zack Pace.

Repealing or delaying the Cadillac tax remains the top legislative priority for many employer organizations.

Repealing or delaying the Cadillac tax remains the top legislative priority for many employer organizations.

GOP still focused on block grants, but Benefit Advisors Network’s Perry Braun doubts local stakeholders will have the power needed to bring meaningful change to the delivery system.

GOP still focused on block grants, but Benefit Advisors Network’s Perry Braun doubts local stakeholders will have the power needed to bring meaningful change to the delivery system.

The Graham-Cassidy repeal bill is dead this week, but benefits executives are banking on Affordable Care Act improvements, including elimination of the Cadillac tax and a bigger focus on controlling healthcare costs.

Senate Republicans gave up on their last-ditch proposal to repeal the ACA Tuesday as opposition in their own ranks ended months of fruitless efforts to gut it.

Senators sponsoring a last-ditch ACA repeal bill scrambled to save it from near-certain death Sunday, circulating a new version aimed at winning over several GOP holdouts.

The Graham-Cassidy bill removes employer-mandate penalties, maintains the Cadillac tax and includes HSA reforms.