HSA users do not see plans as tax savings, retirement tools
Health savings account participants are more engaged in their healthcare decisions but still see HSAs as ways for reducing medical expense.
Healthcare issues
Million-dollar medical claims increase by 87 percent
Injectable drugs and in-patient care drive the highest of cost for employers.
Million-dollar medical claims increase by 87%
Injectable drugs and in-patient care drive the highest of cost for employers.
Most Americans plan to own homes in retirement, but that might be a mistake
Owning a home offers some benefits, such as the option for a reverse mortgage and certain tax breaks, but are they enough to offset the burdens involved.
Benefits Think Federal rule broadens association health plan opportunities
The final ruling includes protections intended to remedy historical challenges with AHPs and to prevent AHPs from discriminating against individuals based on health reasons.
Helaine I. Fingold
Epstein Becker Green
Benefits Think How a human pharmacist could outperform Amazon’s PillPack
The online retail giant’s purchase of the e-pharmacy may deliver convenience but who will monitor customers for side effects and wrong dosages?
Trista E. Collins
ELMC Rx Solutions
What to know about Atul Gawande on his first day
As the new head of Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan’s healthcare venture gets down to work, we can see what his plans might be for the future of large employer health plans.
Is the Amazon deal a bitter pill for healthcare? Experts weigh in
The online retail conglomerate takes another step into the health market with its announcement to buy PillPack, surprising several industry leaders.
Is the Amazon deal a bitter pill for brokers? Healthcare experts weigh in
The online retail conglomerate takes another step into the healthcare market with its announcement to buy online pharmacy, surprising several industry leaders.
A cure for high pharma costs? Import drugs, export patients
Attempting to circumvent the costly specialty drug chain, brokers are encouraging clients to shop for FDA-approved drugs outside the U.S.
Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan health venture takes aim at middlemen
The health venture established will take aim at intermediaries in the healthcare system as a part of a broad effort to reduce wasteful spending
Finding cancer patients is pharma industry’s unlikely challenge
The world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies, looking to sell a new type of cancer drug that could transform treatment, are grappling with an unusual challenge: finding patients.
Gawande says goal is better healthcare for 1 million workers
The CEO of the Amazon-JPMC-Berkshire Hathaway aims to address the “tapeworm” eating the U.S. economy.
Dimon, Bezos, Buffett tap Harvard’s Gawande for health firm
Atul Gawande, the surgeon and journalist who has written extensively about America’s failure to grapple with an inefficient healthcare system, has been named to head a new venture for Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase.
Employers must step up to address substance abuse
From the opioid epidemic to alcoholism, executives can play an important role in creating a culture and leading a conversation around abuse prevention.
Medical management firms pull the curtain back on healthcare provider costs
Firms such as AIMM and Claim DOC are showing brokers and employer clients just how costly claims are becoming and where to find alternative avenues of care.
Migraines giving employers a headache
A 1,000-person firm could lose more than $80,000 annually to migraine-related health costs and lost work time according to a new report out from the Integrated Benefits Institute.
Migraines giving employers a headache
A 1,000-person firm could lose more than $80,000 annually to migraine-related health costs and lost work time according to a new report out from the Integrated Benefits Institute.
Benefits Think The value-based care challenge: Helping employers tap into quality care
Advisers must guide employers to the right solutions partner who can help them evaluate the best care based on reliable population health data.
Shane Wolverton
Quantros, Inc.
Providing a benefits guide path for employees
Midwest Benefit Advisors works with a medical management firm to help plan participants make smart, cost-saving healthcare decisions.
