Premera Blue Cross adds new radiology services
The insurance company partnered with Covera Health to prevent misdiagnosis and unnecessary surgeries.
Healthcare issues
Benefits Think 3 ways to support workplace well-being during COVID-19
Employee well-being is directly tied to business health, which is why it is so important for organizations to optimize their benefits and deliver the right health and wellness offerings for their workers.
Chaz Hinkle
Welltok
Benefits Think 3 healthcare benefits trends to consider for 2021
As with all disruption, however, we now have the opportunity to adjust our structures, mindsets and ways of working to emerge from the crisis stronger than ever before.
Robert Deshaies
WEX Health
Benefits Think Opioid crisis exacerbated by COVID-19: What employers can do
Seventy five percent of employers reported being directly affected by opioids, often as contributing to workplace accidents, lost productivity, staffing issues, missed workdays, and increased care and leave costs.
Erin Peterson
Integrated Benefits Institute
Benefits Think Smart CEOs must hear employee cry for mental health benefits
Around 63% of workers say their company could do more to support their emotional and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Within this group, 22% said their company’s response was “barely adequate,” “a disaster” or “non-existent.”
Sally Welborn
Employer Health Innovation Roundtable
Benefits Think In uncertain times, flexibility of HRAs help employers maintain benefits
Instead of choosing a one-size-fits-all plan for a group, employers can offer fixed reimbursements that employees can use to purchase their own insurance or use for medical expenses.
Jack Hooper
Take Command Health
Tesla offers anxious plant workers unpaid leave until May 31
Employees who are concerned they might expose an at-risk member of their household can sign and submit a document to take leave until May 31.
Benefits Think How major life events can affect your health insurance planning
The usual time to sign up for health insurance is during open enrollment but businesses and the Marketplace allow you to make changes to your health insurance anytime if certain major life events happen.
Robin Gelburd
FAIR Health
Voya Financial designs digital HSA tool to keep employees from depleting retirement savings
The majority of U.S. workers do not have enough savings to help them in the event of a medical emergency and often turn to their retirement funds for help.
Employers need to address how inequality affects health
The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions says the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for employers to fight social disparities.
Benefits Think Is value-based insurance design experiencing a renaissance?
The growing costs faced by today’s health care purchasers and plan members have many returning to proven strategies like V-BID, which lowers or eliminates the out-of-pocket cost for high-value services or medications.
Ryan Olmstead
Catalyst for Payment Reform
What’s missing in the coronavirus response
Public health specialists said a range of tools, high-tech strategies and old-school public health interventions could help tamp down the spread of COVID-19.
Benefits Think Using telehealth to respond to coronavirus concerns
Telehealth can meet the need for both expanded healthcare resources and for avoidance of in-person contact that may promote disease transmission.
Robin Gelburd
Fair Health, Inc.
Benefits Think 5 things employers need to know about the CARES Act
Within the bill are several important provisions affecting employers, including requirements for coverage of COVID-19 testing and treatments, as well as the potential impact to group health plans.
Colleen Bruce
National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
Acquisition simplifies quoting and modeling for self-funded health plans
The tech platform helps producers understand a group’s risk, customize coverage and secure competitive stop loss to match plan designs.
Worker burnout is soaring. Here’s how to reach your employees before it’s too late
Without the ability to catch early signs of burnout, employers may miss important cues as workers struggle with anxiety and stress.
Without an integrated health plan, employee mental health goes untreated
An integrated healthcare model can treat behavioral health issues more holistically than relying on add-on benefits.
New eye health benefit caters to pregnant, expecting women
UnitedHealthcare gives expecting women a second yearly eye exam to address changes brought on by pregnancy.
How reference-based pricing can recession-proof your benefits
“It does bring to life the effect of an economic downturn and the results that will have in the health benefits space,” says David Henka, CEO of ActiveRADAR.
Advisers should step up when it comes to employee healthcare education
“We need to build health plans that incentivize employees to make better healthcare choices based on quality,” Jim Blachek, CEO of Dynamic Benefit Solutions, says.
