COVID-19 at-home testing kits can make returning to work safer
A new partnership aims to support safe returns to the workplace through FDA-authorized testing.
Healthcare plans
Benefits Think Returning to work safely requires the right blend of technology and clinical care
A good return-to-work solution should involve a mobile app or a screening survey that allows employees to perform a daily self-assessment, but this should work in tandem with virtual care or telehealth services.
Sampath Narayanan
Paladina Health
Benefits Think How a clinical management strategy can reduce pharmacy spend and improve employee health
For most employers, just 1% of their members are driving 40% or more of pharmacy benefits costs.
Bryan Statham
RxBenefits
Benefits Think High deductible health plans aren’t to blame for rising healthcare costs
To help manage the impact of increasing premiums on financial performance, employers have passed an increase in premium costs to their employees.
Tom Torre
Bend
Cigna, Oscar offer insurance plan to help small businesses maintain productivity
The insurance companies plan to launch a new health plan in Q4 to help employers recuperate from COVID-19 losses.
Benefits Think Why employee experience shouldn’t stop short of health benefits
Including health benefits in your employee experience efforts will show employees that your entire people strategy is built around supporting and equipping them to thrive.
Jennifer Jones MSM RD
Springbuk
Benefits Think 3 strategies for safely returning employees to work
Companies should adopt strategies from across three different categories — screening and testing; workplace policies and design; and health and healthcare access when planning their workplace return.
Dr. Jon Leizman
Premise Health
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
Single-payer healthcare could lead to major employee benefits industry shakeout
If Democrats win in November, single-payer healthcare could still be on the agenda. Its adoption would shake up the benefits industry.
Digital health can help make returning to work safer
Digital health can transition employees back to work in a safe, cost effective and scalable way, says Andrew Le, CEO at Buoy Health.
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
Redesigning your healthcare plan during coronavirus
Now is a time for HR managers to reassess healthcare plans and make important changes, health insurance expert says.
Internship programs altered amid coronavirus pandemic
Firms are delaying, shortening or making virtual their internship programs this summer as efforts to slow the pandemic around the world leave employees working from home.
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
Bosses stretch the definition of who is ‘essential’ — and workers take the risk
There is wide variety in how aggressively the rules are issued and applied during the coronavirus pandemic, and businesses often don’t know which way to turn.
Using self-funded health plans to cut costs for company health plans
Employers in three metropolitan areas will have access to the cost-saving health plan.
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.
Web Seminar COVID-19: Transforming healthcare with navigation & telemedicine
The COVID-19 outbreak has upended the US healthcare system as we know it. Confusion and stress have skyrocketed among members as workplace guidelines and healthcare norms change rapidly.
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.