Healthcare plans

Misty Guinn, director of customer advocacy at Benefitfocus, discusses the current state of employee benefits.

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how people interact with their benefits, their jobs and their medical needs.

Addressing drug and alcohol addiction needs to be a long-term strategy for employers.

“We can see a future where over the next 10 years, most healthcare interactions will be online,” says Robin Glass, president of Doctor on Demand.

Amazon has various healthcare initiatives under way.

Employers should not turn to telemedicine or other digital solutions blindfolded. They should carefully assess what they aim to achieve and how these solutions will help them get there.

Managers need to be more vocal about their own mental health challenges to make treatment and support more accessible.

Telehealth benefits are an accessible way to offer benefits to at-risk employee groups.

Substance use disorder and behavioral health treatments are examples of why employers are responding with virtual care programs to continue to take care of the health and well-being of their employees.