‘The year of innovation’: Employers get creative with health offerings
Companies are expanding wellness incentives and adding HSAs, new data from DirectPath finds.
Healthcare plans
Benefits Think How to make wellness programs really work
Clients can actually lower healthcare costs and improve employee health by taking these factors into account.
Jay Wohlgemuth
Quest Diagnostics
Benefits Think The benefit you may not be offering to employees — but should be
To help ease the burden of employee caregivers, employers should give greater attention to palliative care.
Suzanne Delbanco
Catalyst for Payment Reform
Benefits Think How to evaluate health questionnaire software
Filling out paperwork is so inefficient it keeps brokers from pursuing alternate funding strategies.
Alex Tolbert
BerniePortal
Fitbit expands offerings to new employers, health plans
The company expanded a partnership with Solera Health, and says Adobe and Domino’s Pizza are now offering its business devices to employees.
How one adviser is driving healthcare savings for a car dealership
A self-insured benefits plan for a small business resulted in substantial savings. Here's how an adviser found a competitive edge.
How one adviser helps employees navigate the healthcare system
Ed Ligondé, one of our 20 Rising Stars of 2019, used his own medical condition as inspiration to learn about healthcare — and improve employee benefits education along the way.
Benefits Think How to make wellness programs really work
Employers can actually lower healthcare costs and improve employee health by taking these factors into account.
Jay Wohlgemuth
Quest Diagnostics
Benefits Think How to remodel a group health plan
Here’s how one benefits consultant helped an employer redesign its health plan — and lessons learned that can help other companies.
Zack Pace
CBIZ
Trump administration zeroes in on increasing competition in healthcare
The administration has increased access to association health plans and short term, limited duration plans.
Health insurers sink as `Medicare for all’ idea gains traction
Democrats’ new “Medicare for all” bill would replace almost all private plans.
10 key takeaways from Workplace Benefits Renaissance
EBA’s annual conference delved deep into hot benefit trends and technology.
Trump administration zeroes in on increasing competition in healthcare
The administration has increased access to association health plans and short-term, limited-duration plans.
Innovative strategies for reducing healthcare costs
What should employers and lawmakers do to address the high cost of healthcare? A lot more, experts say.
10 key takeaways from Workplace Benefits Renaissance
EBA’s annual conference delved deep into hot benefit trends, broker strategies and technology.
How tech, AI can help cut healthcare costs
There’s a big “gap in strategy — or the lack thereof,” says Curtis Cannon of Axis Recovery. “A lot of brokers have a bolt-on mindset.”
Benefits Think I was in the hospital for 8 days. Here’s how it has me rethinking benefits
A recent medical crisis has me frustrated with health insurance and the pains that come along with it. And it serves as a reminder of what clients need to do to help workers.
Kathryn Mayer
Employee Benefit News
Q&A: Whither healthcare in America?
No one knows what the future of healthcare will be, but these experts say it needs to be simpler.
Benefits Think 4 questions clients should ask before adding biometric screenings
Many benefits managers don’t get specific details about wellness biometric testing — leading to suboptimal results in the program.
Steve Goldberg
Quest Diagnostics
Is this health benefit the ‘future’ of employee care?
Direct primary care may be employers’ and brokers’ next hottest offering as the model has the potential to revolutionize the relationship between patient and physician.
