Healthcare plans

In a national plan, employers are pooled together to purchase stop-loss insurance. Companies pay smaller day-to-day claims as they come, but enjoy greater protection against catastrophic claims as well as the purchasing power of a large group.

The deal gives the digital health company additional resources to address the needs of employees with chronic health conditions.

At the event in Washington DC, benefit brokers learned new, innovative ways to reduce healthcare costs for their employer clients.

Much like stop-loss coverage, advisers can use telehealth services to help clients make the leap to becoming self-insured.

The deal gives the digital health company additional resources to address the needs of employees with chronic health conditions.

Employees and others are ill-prepared to meet their long-term care expenses. But government regulations and insurer indifference are exacerbating the problem.

Providing telehealth visits and offering workers a personal advocate to transfer medical records or schedule appointments are among the strategies employers should consider.

You’re not out of luck — for smaller, self-insured organizations, near-site healthcare is an affordable, scalable option.

The president will propose a sweeping effort to bring down U.S. drug prices in a plan to make good on a campaign promise.

Still seeking to repeal elements of the healthcare law, doing away with the Cadillac tax and the MLR tops the IIABA’s legislative agenda.