Healthcare plans

The more educated employees are about treatment options and their pricing, the more likely they'll be to better engage in healthcare.

For clients sponsoring high-deductible health plans with health savings accounts, ensuring that the HDHP continuously remains HSA-qualified is no easy task. But this checklist can help.

Health savings account participants are more engaged in their healthcare decisions but still see HSAs as ways for reducing medical expense.

Employers are grappling with slow adoption even as they push high-deductible health plans as a smart bet for more workers.

The longer employees stay home from an injury or illness, the less likely they are to return to work. A supportive management and HR team can change that.

Although employer-provided health plans include mental health and substance abuse care benefits, barriers — such as a lack of in-network providers — prevent workers from accessing the care.

The Trump administration this week proposed to allow U.S. employees to use tax-free health reimbursement arrangements to shop for coverage in the individual market. Here’s what it means for employers.

While more employers are offering a flu shot benefit, it can be difficult to get workers to sign up.

These programs focus on giving healthcare resources to a specific group of at-risk employees — the people who make up 62% of healthcare spend.

These programs focus on giving healthcare resources to a specific group of at-risk employees — the people who make up 62% of healthcare spend.

For employers sponsoring high-deductible health plans with health savings accounts, ensuring that the HDHP continuously remains HSA-qualified is no easy task. But this checklist can help.

There is opportunity to bring the health model to the employer-purchaser masses. Payers and niche vendors play a significant role in making that happen.

Arthritis, obesity and depression are among the ailments having the biggest impact on rising plan costs, according to research from the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans.

There is opportunity to bring the health model to the employer-purchaser masses. Payers and niche vendors play a significant role in making that happen.

With absurd price disparities in healthcare costs, smart employers are refusing to accept disgraceful aspects of the benefits and healthcare status quo.

Telemedicine is an effective option for patients who have trouble getting to the doctor’s office, but complex state laws make it difficult to provide service to everyone.