Healthcare issues

A pharmacy benefit manager can often find true savings to critical drugs in the same neighborhood.

Advisers must guide employers to the right solutions partner who can help them evaluate the best care based on reliable population health data.

Midwest Benefit Advisors works with a medical management firm to help plan participants make smart, cost-saving healthcare decisions.

A pharmacy benefit manager can often find true savings to critical drugs in the same neighborhood.

A health plan that pools risk from multiple employers and their employees is only as strong as the health of its participants.

The healthcare venture between Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. has picked the person who will lead the initiative.

The pros and cons of self-funded benefit strategy depend on the location of the market.

A new study found that fewer than 2% of heavy smokers in the U.S. get recommended lung cancer screenings.

Much like stop-loss coverage, employers can use telehealth services when making the leap to becoming self-insured.

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.

The deal gives the digital health company additional resources to address the needs of employees with chronic health conditions.

At the event in Washington DC, benefit brokers learned new, innovative ways to reduce healthcare costs for their employer clients.

Much like stop-loss coverage, advisers can use telehealth services to help clients make the leap to becoming self-insured.

The deal gives the digital health company additional resources to address the needs of employees with chronic health conditions.

The price of prescriptions has skyrocketed and the industry needs to address matters sooner rather than later.

The price of prescriptions has skyrocketed and the industry needs to address matters sooner rather than later.

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?

As more employers move to self-insure, carriers are in search of new value propositions.

As more employers move to self-insure, carriers are in search of new value propositions.

CVS Health Corp. said it’s making progress in the regulatory review of its $68 billion deal to buy health insurer Aetna