Benefits Think A health insurance primer for your employees during Open Enrollment
Everything your employees need to know to choose the right healthcare plan.
Robin Gelburd
FAIR Health
Insurance plan premiums
High-deductible health plans are a financial gamble for many employees
While half of employers are enrolled in a high-deductible health plan, 41% cannot pay for healthcare costs.
Benefits Think Best practices for navigating premium increases for small group employers
Benefit brokers who are proactive and address near-certain cost hikes will become valuable client counselors.
Ron Goldstein
Choice Administrators
Why premiums are C.R.A.P.
President of Energi Insurance Services in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., Craig Lack identifies how brokers can claim new clients by showing them the cost of inaction.
Benefits Think Why clients and advisers should be upfront with workers about self-funding
The knowledge that employers are paying claims can dramatically change employees’ entire outlook on health benefits and total compensation, says CBIZ's Zack Pace.
Zack Pace
CBIZ
Benefits Think The next innovation in controlling healthcare costs
Employers are increasingly adopting reference based pricing and reimbursements as a way to more effectively determine and control health costs.
Bruce F. Barr
Corporate Synergies
Unum’s Jeff Smith on why voluntary benefits are surging
With employers increasingly turning to VBs to fill coverage gaps, insurers like Unum are offering new systems to automate enrollment.
Most wellness programs fail to reward healthy behavior
Despite mounting evidence that cash and other incentives can significantly boost participation, the majority of these programs fail to provide meaningful inducements.
Benefits Think The next innovation in controlling healthcare costs
Employers are increasingly adopting reference based pricing and reimbursements as a way to more effectively determine and control health costs.
Bruce F. Barr
Corporate Synergies
Top U.S. health official highlights need for insurer competition
The Obama administration’s top health official highlighted the importance of competition to insurance markets, as the Justice Department is poised to decide on two massive deals among four of the health-plan industry’s biggest players.
Boeing expands its ACO plan to cover 15,000 employees in southern California
The company’s new “Preferred Partnership” arrangement with a select network of local providers aims for cost savings and a superior patient experience.
Benefits Think Helping employees navigate the health insurance experience
It’s not as mysterious as it’s often made out to be. New findings clearly show that people are more confident about purchasing health plans when they can address their questions to another person.
Liz Reyer
GfK
Benefits Think Is the health insurance balloon about to pop?
Brokers are trying to help employers control costs, but are seeing little success, says HR Technology Advisors’ Joe Markland.
Joe Markland
Nfor1
Retirement Scan: 7 Medicare facts employees should know
Even people who have not earned 40 work credits can still sign up for the program but will have to pay a premium for hospital coverage.
Retirement Scan: 7 Medicare facts employees should know
Even people who have not earned 40 work credits can still sign up for the program but will have to pay a premium for hospital coverage.
Unum’s Jeff Smith on why voluntary benefits are surging
With employers increasingly turning to VBs to fill coverage gaps, insurers like Unum are offering new systems to automate enrollment.
Boeing expands its ACO plan to cover 15,000 employees in southern California
The company’s new “Preferred Partnership” arrangement with a select network of local providers aims for cost savings and a superior patient experience.
Most wellness programs fail to reward healthy behavior
Despite mounting evidence that cash and other incentives can significantly boost participation, the majority of these programs fail to provide meaningful inducements.
As healthcare costs continue to rise, employees shoulder the burden
Employers are lowering their own premiums through coinsurance and high deductibles. But efforts to help workers control their spending through smarter healthcare decisions have met with less success.
Benefits Think Is the health insurance balloon about to pop?
Brokers are trying to help employers control costs, but are seeing little success, says HR Technology Advisors’ Joe Markland.
Joe Markland
Nfor1