Tag: employer health benefits

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

Its Benefits Enrollment Application provides easy-to-use benefits plan analysis that allows users to select and compare eligible plans.

Both employers and employees can manage consumer accounts benefits, such as HSAs, FSAs and gym reimbursements, with one tool.

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

Starting in January 2020, employers will be able to use individual coverage HRAs to provide their workers with tax-preferred funds...

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

“Broadening the membership benefits available to member organizations to include not only health insurance coverage options but, health reimbursement arrangements...

Employees can access prescription cost information and comparative cost information about medical procedures and treatments on a single portal.

Research found low engagement levels with health benefit programs, and one problem it identifies is employees are often required to...

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

Damian A. Myers, with Proskauer Rose LLP, says employers can inadvertently subject individual market insurance policies to ERISA if they...

Mercer has published a list of 10 top compliance-related priorities for 2020 health and fringe benefit planning.

The bill would permit American workers enrolled in Medicare to open and contribute to a health savings account (HSA), without...

Picwell’s AI engine matches consumers to the right plan during enrollment by predicting future care considerations, estimating out-of-pocket expenses, and...

An appellate court decision and an amicus brief filed in the case by the Department of Labor (DOL) emphasize plan...

Sources say Congress may try to tack the SECURE Act onto other moving legislation this fall, and they recount the...

Many employees don’t understand health benefits—including that most insurance covers preventive care. Better education can lead employees to use benefits...

Rachel Leiser Levy, from Groom Law Group, explains changes from the proposed HRA regulation in the final regulation, and says...

An analysis from PeopleKeep also found in 2018, employees used an average 78% of their available QSEHRA allowance, and one-third...

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