Healthcare plans

A raft of under-popularized strategies are helping advisers reign in their clients healthcare costs.

The sports bar and driving range venue implemented SurgeryPlus once it moved to a self-insured health plan and saw a reduction in costs.

Employer clients with high-deductible health plans could be snared by recent legislation in Illinois, Maryland and Oregon.

Employers may not be able to remove the stigma of behavioral illness, but they can invest in quality health programs where early identification and referrals to treatment can be encouraged and facilitated.

The Integrated Benefits Institute announced a new initiative that aims to join together companies in finding solutions to rising health costs and chronic employee conditions.

Sales are booming for this voluntary product that fills numerous coverage gaps.

Employers may not be able to remove the stigma of behavioral illness, but they can invest in quality health programs where early identification and referrals to treatment can be encouraged and facilitated.

The Integrated Benefits Institute announced a new initiative that aims to join together companies in finding solutions to rising health costs and chronic employee conditions.

Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan may not supplant the carriers—but they may very well force them to reinvent their business model.

Companies should hold providers accountable and insist that employees receive evidence-based treatments.