Healthcare issues

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.

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

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

A trio of EBA Rising Stars discuss the challenges of working in their father firms, why new ideas matter and what impact Amazon and Apple will have on healthcare’s future.

Collective Health Inc. has raised a fresh infusion of investor cash as it seeks to win over more firms frustrated with a fragmented, costly market.

By understanding what goes into prices, employers can have leverage at the negotiation table with the insurance carrier.

The Healthy Working Families Act requires employers to provide up to 40 hours of coverage per year.

Group will focus on passage of the Commonsense Reporting Act.

Today’s healthcare providers are largely unaccountable and unaudited in terms of their pricing and underlying costs.

By understanding what goes into prices, employers can have leverage at the negotiation table with the insurance carrier.

RA medicine accounted for nearly half of specialty drug spend last year, inducing the pharmacy benefit manager to introduce a personalized savings program that could save employers $500,000 a year.