disease management

• Insurance employers use wellness to control costs

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  July 19, 2012

  Nearly two-thirds of insurance employers this year faced higher medical insurance premiums, according to the 2012 Compensation Data Insurance survey results.

• Six Secrets to Enhancing Benefit Partnership Relationships

  By Sponsor: Ameritas  |  June 25, 2012

  Every day, human resource (HR) professionals face a world with many challenging responsibilities that often are overwhelming. One of these areas is the oversight and administration of employee benefit programs. HR strives to provide benefits that help employees with their health care protection needs and educational programs to keep them...

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  Benefits at a crossroads

  By Jenny Ivy  |  July 5, 2011

  Rising benefits costs are forcing employers to make difficult trade-offs

• Majority of patients lack disease management information

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  February 9, 2011

  Once diagnosed with an illness, many patients do not have adequate disease management information, according to a MedTera study.

• Lower co-pays save money

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  January 10, 2011

  By lowering co-payments on prescription drug co-payments and promoting disease management companies can cut health care costs, finds a three-year study commissioned by the Florida Health Care Coalition.

• Employer health costs surge to five-year high

  By Jenny Ivy  |  September 28, 2010

  Health care costs for employers in 2011 will be at their highest in five years, according to new analysis from Hewitt Associates.

• The future of health benefits: A discussion

  By Jenny Ivy  |  April 1, 2010

  The Employee Benefit Research Institute held a policy forum last December in Washington, D.C. (where you'll hopefully be attending our expo this year).