Tag: employer health benefits costs

Offering voluntary benefits, enhancing benefit communications and telemedicine are just some of the new strategies employers are using or considering.

Employers are asking benefits brokers to engage employees on benefits choices and offer better price transparency, among other things.

Employers see a business case for investing more in health and well-being, but overall cost savings is a benefit as...

The Cadillac Tax, which many said would limit health care choice and cause greater cost-shifting to employees, was repealed.

Small Employers can ask for incentives and pricing models from insurers, focus on primary care, and band together to reduced...

Many are turning to innovative tech-enabled programs that cut costs for them while not shifting costs to employees, Mercer found.

Employers are encouraging the use of biosimilars instead of specialty pharmacy products, creating an environment that makes it clear and...

A survey found 92% of small businesses are willing to work together to push for changes to make health care...

A focus on managing chronic conditions, and education to improve health care utilization can help employers manage cost increases.

Employers need to focus on getting employees into the right plans for them and maximizing the use of their benefits.

Employees that do not get good primary care drive up employer health costs, so a former hospital administrator started a...

Plan sponsors are considering changes to health plan design as well as health care delivery models, with strategies to address...

Employers can lower their health benefits spend, as well as costs for employees, by moving away from preferred provider organizations...

In the meantime, many are satisfied that qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangements (QSEHRAs) meet employees’ needs.

Starting next January, employers can give their workers tax-deferred funds to go shopping for a health plan, thanks to individual...

An analysis from Gallagher identifies ways “best-in-class” employers are controlling health care costs.

In a ruling in favor of a health benefit plan sponsor, a federal court judge lays out prudent processes the...

Willis Towers Watson identifies lessons employers can learn from what it deems “best-performing” companies in its annual Best Practices in...

“Telemedicine stands out as the fastest-growing health care cost-management technique among employers,” says Julie Stich, associate vice president of content...

Only 33% of employees surveyed by Maestro Health say they completely understand the health coverage offered through their employers, and...