Healthcare industry

With an anticipated 5% increase in benefits costs, companies are looking to revamp strategies and encourage programs that empower workers to be savvy healthcare consumers.

Grand Rounds algorithm credited with combating misdiagnoses and improving healthcare literacy for clients.

The truth is that group plans typically earn a percentage of total expenditures, and it is in representatives’ best interest for medical services to cost as much as possible.

Assessing and monitoring family history and lifestyle-based risk factors and giving employees access to experienced specialists are among the underused tactics companies should embrace.

Republicans in Congress have been unable agree on a way to repeal and replace Obamacare – and now they’re divided on whether they should give up on their GOP-only approach.

Assessing and monitoring family history and lifestyle-based risk factors and giving employees access to experienced specialists are among the underused tactics companies should embrace.

The Senate rejected a simple repeal of the ACA on Wednesday, still in the early stages of an unpredictable floor debate on healthcare amid significant doubts that Republicans can muster the 50 votes needed to pass any kind of bill.

The Senate rejected Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s healthcare proposal late Tuesday at the start of several days of debate with no clear idea of what ACA-replacement plan the senators will ultimately be asked to pass.

Senate Republicans agreed to begin floor debate on healthcare legislation, a hard-fought step amid uncertainty about exactly what plan senators will ultimately be asked to vote on.

Several key Republican holdouts on healthcare legislation said they will vote to begin debate Tuesday afternoon, even though senators don’t know exactly where the legislation will end up.

Senate Republican leaders must decide which healthcare proposal they’ll ask members to vote on this week, in what has become a series of all-out efforts to get their own members on board.

Next week could be a key test over whether Republicans have any chance at delivering on their seven years of promises of repealing and replacing the ACA.

A Republican fallback plan to repeal all of the ACA without a replacement health program would lead to 32 million more people uninsured than under current law.

Even with the Republicans’ failed effort, there may be additional opportunities for relief from ACA requirements in the coming months.

Senate Republicans anxiously awaiting a key analysis of their revised health bill have more time to wait, and debate on the controversial measure that had been expected this week.

Senate Republicans’ revised proposal to replace Obamacare would provide an added $70 billion to stabilize insurance exchanges over a decade compared with an earlier version.

Companies would welcome the elimination of 'costly and time consuming' provisions including the employer mandate, the Cadillac tax and reporting requirements.

Those leaving the workforce who want to maximize their nest egg should take advantage of the Rule 72(t) distributions.

Employers can adopt health reimbursement accounts to start building a self-insurance plan.

Employers can adopt health reimbursement accounts to start building a self-insurance plan.