Healthcare issues

Employers are pressed to reduce their health benefits spend while improving outcomes, but these tools can help.

While the carriers back away from offering long-term care policies, advisers see abundant opportunities.

Chris McSwain sounds off on the Integrated Benefits Institute’s new initiatives, and why firms need to come together and connect to help solve medical challenges.

Several factors contribute to workers’ failure to use the perks available to them, but employers can help with predictive and preventive approaches.

Advisers are pressed to help clients reduce their health benefits spend while improving outcomes. These tools can help.

Several factors contribute to workers’ failure to use the perks available to them, but employers can help with predictive and preventive approaches.

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.

A raft of under-popularized strategies are helping advisers reign in their clients healthcare costs.

The sports bar and driving range venue implemented SurgeryPlus once it moved to a self-insured health plan and saw a reduction in costs.

Employers may not be able to remove the stigma of behavioral illness, but they can invest in quality health programs where early identification and referrals to treatment can be encouraged and facilitated.

Sales are booming for this voluntary product that fills numerous coverage gaps.

Employers may not be able to remove the stigma of behavioral illness, but they can invest in quality health programs where early identification and referrals to treatment can be encouraged and facilitated.

Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan may not supplant the carriers—but they may very well force them to reinvent their business model.

Companies should hold providers accountable and insist that employees receive evidence-based treatments.

Employers need to work to address employee depression, migraines, obesity, diabetes, arthritis and cancer.

Here are ways to combat the six most common health conditions that undermine productivity.

Walmart has been buying health care for its workers directly from providers in six different regions - bypassing insurers who usually negotiate with doctors and hospitals.

The plans already offer employees strong coverage – and carriers are making their plans even.

Many firms aren’t satisfied with their prescription drug costs — but there are ways to change that problem, says consultant Chuck Reynolds.

Group will focus on passage of the Commonsense Reporting Act.