Benefits Think Employees need help in the hunt for cheaper prescriptions
A pharmacy benefit manager can often find true savings to critical drugs in the same neighborhood.
Heidi Rasmussen
Freshbenies
Healthcare issues
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.
Benefits Think Employees need help in the hunt for cheaper prescriptions
A pharmacy benefit manager can often find true savings to critical drugs in the same neighborhood.
Heidi Rasmussen
Freshbenies
Benefits Think Gauging the risk and rewards of a benefits captive plan
A health plan that pools risk from multiple employers and their employees is only as strong as the health of its participants.
Jeff Miller
Corporate Synergies
Buffett says health venture CEO pick to be disclosed in weeks
The healthcare venture between Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. has picked the person who will lead the initiative.
Benefits Think City or country: Where will reference-based pricing work best?
The pros and cons of self-funded benefit strategy depend on the location of the market.
Alex Tolbert
BerniePortal
Most heavy smokers don’t want to know if they have cancer
A new study found that fewer than 2% of heavy smokers in the U.S. get recommended lung cancer screenings.
Benefits Think Why virtual care is an essential part of self-funding
Much like stop-loss coverage, employers can use telehealth services when making the leap to becoming self-insured.
Kelly Bliss
Teladoc
Benefits Think This innovative health plan approach can solve fully- and self-insured problems
In a national plan, employers are pooled together to purchase stop-loss insurance. Companies pay smaller day-to-day claims as they come, but enjoy greater protection against catastrophic claims as well as the purchasing power of a large group.
Rick Reiman
MJM Global Insurance Brokerage Group
Livongo Health acquires weight-management company Retrofit
The deal gives the digital health company additional resources to address the needs of employees with chronic health conditions.
Lessons from the World Health Care Congress
At the event in Washington DC, benefit brokers learned new, innovative ways to reduce healthcare costs for their employer clients.
Benefits Think Why virtual care is an essential part of self-funding
Much like stop-loss coverage, advisers can use telehealth services to help clients make the leap to becoming self-insured.
Kelly Bliss
Teladoc
Livongo Health acquires weight-management company Retrofit
The deal gives the digital health company additional resources to address the needs of employees with chronic health conditions.
Benefits Think A pharmacist looks at the evolving pharmacy benefit space
The price of prescriptions has skyrocketed and the industry needs to address matters sooner rather than later.
Zack Pace
CBIZ
Benefits Think A pharmacist looks at the evolving pharmacy benefit space
The price of prescriptions has skyrocketed and the industry needs to address matters sooner rather than later.
Zack Pace
CBIZ
Brokers debate their role in a new employee benefits landscape
Amazon, JPMC and Berkshire Hathaway and other large employers have put the healthcare industry on notice but what does this mean for employee benefit advisers?
Benefits Think Is reference-based pricing driving the recent spate of healthcare acquisitions?
As more employers move to self-insure, carriers are in search of new value propositions.
Alex Tolbert
BerniePortal
Benefits Think Is reference-based pricing driving the recent spate of healthcare acquisitions?
As more employers move to self-insure, carriers are in search of new value propositions.
Alex Tolbert
BerniePortal
CVS is `moving forward’ with Aetna deal as profit tops estimates
CVS Health Corp. said it’s making progress in the regulatory review of its $68 billion deal to buy health insurer Aetna
