Healthcare issues

Benefits consultant Prashant Srivastava shares three ways employers can provide true value and encourage meaningful employee engagement.

Benefits consultant Prashant Srivastava shares three ways employers can provide true value and encourage meaningful employee engagement.

Onsite health centers can drive better health outcomes, lower health plan costs and save employers money. But that’s not always the case, says Brian Klepper.

Onsite health centers can drive better health outcomes, lower health plan costs and save employers money. But that’s not always the case, says Brian Klepper.

As premiums increase and employers rework benefit offerings, understanding regional health costs could play a key role in strategy going forward. Wallethub has put together a list of states with the worst healthcare.

The average cost of employee healthcare makes up 7.6% of a company’s annual operating budget, SHRM finds.

Employers must help workers understand each of the available plan types and the terms that are commonly used to describe them.

The average cost of employee healthcare makes up 7.6% of a company’s annual operating budget, SHRM finds.

Health systems do not want to lose money for better health outcomes, say consultants Brian Klepper and Fred Goldstein.

Healthcare costs are expected to increase 6% in 2017 as companies make use of better management tools and take advantage of advances in telehealth.

Healthcare costs are expected to increase 6% in 2017 as companies make use of better management tools and take advantage of advances in telehealth.

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Depending on factors like demographics, geography, environment, and heredity, the healthcare-needs profile of an employee base can vary widely, even between companies in the same industry, says AdminaHealth’s Arthur Jonokuchi.

Depending on factors like demographics, geography, environment, and heredity, the healthcare-needs profile of an employee base can vary widely, even between companies in the same industry, says AdminaHealth’s Arthur Jonokuchi.

Employers host a variety of valuable employee data such as age range, marital status and more; they should take advantage of the insight it can provide, says Thompson Online Benefits’ Brenden Mielke.

A reduction in employer contributions and rising prescription drug costs are drivers of growth in healthcare costs, according to new data from consulting and actuarial firm Milliman.

Employers host a variety of valuable employee data such as age range, marital status, number of dependants and more, yet many are not able to take advantage of the insight it can provide, says Brenden Mielke of Thomsons Online Benefits.

A reduction in employer contributions and rising prescription drug costs are drivers of growth in healthcare costs, according to new data from consulting and actuarial firm Milliman.

Health plan sponsors have a valuable role to play in preventing avoidable deaths from medical mistakes, says Joe Kiani, president of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation.

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