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If virtual medicine is pursued in the name of business efficiency or just profit, it has enormous potential to make healthcare worse, one expert says.

Benefits consultants play a key role in preparing employers for how they should use point-of-sale rebates to lower healthcare costs.

Claims are astronomical. The first thing clients should do is cover prescription drugs under stop-loss insurance.

Claims are astronomical. The first thing employers should do is cover prescription drugs under stop loss insurance.

As workers bear the brunt of healthcare costs, clients can take actionable steps to help, including funding employees’ health savings accounts.

This move addresses “the absolute lowest hanging fruit” when it comes to fixing the health insurance market, one expert says.

Initiatives like Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway’s Haven may be key to improving drug transparency, says one PBM CEO.

As workers bear the brunt of healthcare costs, employers can take actionable steps to help, including funding employees' health savings accounts.

Initiatives like Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway’s Haven may be key to improving drug transparency, says one PBM CEO.

As Congress weighs how to address the problem, here’s a guide to the bills and what to watch.

The two companies are working together to administer HSAs, FSAs, HRAs and COBRA to employers.

The company has a new mobile app that helps workers find ways to save money on healthcare.

California’s workforce is reporting a major reduction of opioid use, reflecting a national trend of physicians cutting back on the addictive drugs.

Health plans have largely avoided covering cannabis, but with momentum for new therapeutic applications, that could change.

Companies face a complicated array of laws on workplace policies and drug testing. Here are just a few they need to keep in mind.

“Even single-payer systems around the globe vary from each other in many, many ways,” an expert who helped draft the Affordable Care Act says.

Though the model may help solidify healthcare prices, it requires constant vigilance in order to work efficiently, experts say.

Though the model may help solidify healthcare prices, it requires constant vigilance in order to work efficiently, experts say.

One district judge cited an attempted “end-run” around the ACA in rejecting large chunks of a new rule expanding access to plans for small businesses.

One district judge cited an attempted “end-run” around the ACA in rejecting large chunks of a new rule expanding access to plans for small businesses.