Employees making strides in healthcare engagement
Workers are becoming better medical consumers, but could still use help from employers when it comes to understanding some of the finer details, NBGH says.
Healthcare innovations
Profiles in advising: The advantages of building a like-minded client base
Tim Doherty, head of Pinnacle HR Solutions, seeks out employers with a strategic view of health benefits.
Maestro Health’s new benefits platform aims to deliver Medicare pricing to non-Medicare employees
Targeting inflated medical costs, the benefits adviser pre-negotiates prices on behalf of its employer clients.
CVS e-prescription program aims to help employees pay less for medications
By tying its clinical database to physicians’ EHR systems, the drug chain hopes to avoid patient sticker shock and prescription abandonment at the point of sale.
Benefits Think 3 reasons to offer telehealth benefits
The service provides convenience and cost savings while ensuring employees miss fewer work days.
Sally Poblete
Wellthie
CVS e-prescription program aims to help employees pay less for medications
By tying its clinical database to physicians’ EHR systems, the drug chain hopes to avoid patient sticker shock and prescription abandonment at the point of sale.
How a Walmart-Humana deal could shake up the benefits industry
A rumored acquisition could give the nation’s largest employer control of healthcare for its 1.5 million U.S. employees, drive down costs and increase the number of employers looking to disrupt the industry.
Benefits Think Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway may reinvent the carrier business model
Three of the country’s most important companies have allied to take control of their healthcare costs.
Robert M. Gearhart Jr.
DCW Group
Benefits Think How benefits, finance pros should align to manage health costs
Medical trend, workforce health and operational efficiency and employee productivity are three key metrics to consider when evaluating ROI.
Ken Hahn
Collective Health
Benefits Think The next onsite health benefit could be chiropractic care
Addressing musculoskeletal disorders could cut presenteeism and other medical costs in large and small workplaces.
Sherry McAllister
Foundation for Chiropractic Progress
How a Walmart-Humana deal could shake up the benefits industry
A rumored acquisition could give the nation’s largest employer control of healthcare for its 1.5 million U.S. employees, drive down costs and increase the number of employers looking to disrupt the industry.
Benefits Think The next onsite health benefit could be chiropractic care
Addressing musculoskeletal disorders could cut presenteeism and other medical costs in large and small workplaces.
Sherry McAllister
Foundation for Chiropractic Progress
Amazon is already reshaping the healthcare industry
Without having done much yet, Amazon.com is already transforming U.S. healthcare – and not necessarily for the better.
Benefits Think 3 reasons to offer telehealth benefits
The service provides convenience and cost savings while ensuring employees miss fewer work days.
Sally Poblete
Wellthie
The U.S. healthcare system is tied up in red tape
The share of medical spending devoted to administrative costs, including billing, is roughly three times what it is in other affluent countries, and it’s a major reason the United States spends twice as much on healthcare.
Benefits Think Using analytics to rationalize healthcare spending
Employers are pressed to reduce their health benefits spend while improving outcomes, but these tools can help.
David Hom
SCIO Health Analytics
Benefits Think Using analytics to rationalize healthcare spending
Advisers are pressed to help clients reduce their health benefits spend while improving outcomes. These tools can help.
David Hom
SCIO Health Analytics
After non-emergency surgeries benefit, Topgolf sees ROI
The sports bar and driving range venue implemented SurgeryPlus once it moved to a self-insured health plan and saw a 2.57% return on investment.
After non-emergency surgeries benefit, Topgolf sees ROI
The sports bar and driving range venue implemented SurgeryPlus once it moved to a self-insured health plan and saw a reduction in costs.
Next step in employer healthcare alliances: IBI Labs
The Integrated Benefits Institute announced a new initiative that aims to join together companies in finding solutions to rising health costs and chronic employee conditions.
