Tag: employer health benefits costs

Health care decisions are financial decisions, and the right tools, communications and advice can help employees make the right choices.

But future expansions of the law could have plan sponsors reconsidering their benefits offerings, experts say.

The deal adds a complementary suite of solutions to WEX’s health offerings, including employee enrollment and decision support tools for...

They say their employers don’t provide enough educational resources, but plan sponsors can rectify this.

Many are continuing the practice in 2021 and continuing to use different types of communications to reach employees.

Data can inform plan sponsors about what benefits to offer as well as how to steer employee use of benefits.

Specific benefit offerings and increased communications are needed to help employees and to keep costs down.

Using claims data to compare fully insured and self-insured benefits, and seeing the flexibility self-insuring provides can help employers overcome...

Employees want employers to educate them throughout the year and offer tools to help them allocate their money among benefits,...

UBERDOC for Employers makes health care more accessible and can be paid for using a health savings account or medical...

It’s uncertain what will happen with costs going forward, however.

NewsDash readers share whether they’ve ever sacrificed retirement savings because of health benefit costs.

The program has been found to reduce employee hospitalizations and emergency room visits, resulting in reduced health care costs for...

But many said they might be looking to cut costs in other ways.

The COVID-19 Cost Impact Model assesses the impact of the pandemic on health benefit costs, and MedFactor estimates the relative...

Only 5% of employers with self-funded health insurance already have a financial impact assumption, while 21% say they have begun...

Actions to mitigate increasing health benefit costs for this year or next will need to be as unique as the...

The interest-free, payroll-deducted payment plan can keep employees ‘away from more financially toxic payment options,’ such as taking a retirement...

States and insurers have done so for fully insured plans, and self-insured employers should follow suit.