Wellness

Employers need to expand efforts on educating employees about healthcare savings, says Alegeus CEO Steve Auerbach.

Except for mortgages, student loans constitute the largest component of household debt for U.S. employees, and location can play a part in higher education costs. Employers might take note when offering benefits to help workers pay down their loans.

Change likely due to ACA, United Benefit Advisors research finds.

The U.S. healthcare market is shifting, and the Pacific Business Group on Health wants to serve as a resource for employers on changing payment models.

The average cost of employee healthcare makes up 7.6% of a company’s annual operating budget, SHRM finds.

Some options are better at reducing the expense of such services than others, say Universal Health Advisors John Mickner and Tim Cummings.

Therapies such as applied behavioral analytics are now provided in more programs, such as JPMorgan Chase’s offering.

Bernard Health founder Alex Tolbert talks to EBN about why healthcare costs continue to escalate and how those increases are impacting employees’ wage and salary increases.

The employee assistance program industry is changing as employees are expected to increasingly blend work and home life, says ACI Specialty Benefits’ Erin Krehbiel

Roughly a third of American workers don’t have a retirement vehicle, says Labor Secretary Thomas Perez.