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By Amanda McGrory |
May 4, 2012
While research has shown that wellness programs can reduce costs, many employers are failing to measure their return on investment to get an accurate picture of how these programs impact the bottom line.
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By Jenny Ivy |
March 12, 2012
Benefits design changes are happening whether or not health reform and insurance exchanges will be around. One way or another, employers will have to confront compliance demands in addition to already surging health care costs.
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By Jenny Ivy |
March 5, 2012
Re-routing benefits priorities - and more importantly, investments - to focus on wellness programs may be more of a faith-based pursuit than a proven method.
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By Jenny Ivy |
March 1, 2012
Almost 80 percent of companies surveyed recently by Fidelity and the National Business Group on Health say they don't know the return on investment in their health-improvement programs. Here are five suggestions
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By Amanda McGrory |
February 17, 2012
The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that employers offering private health plans must provide employees with summary of benefits coverage, which is a user-friendly brief outlining available plan options and costs, including copays and deductibles.
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By Amanda McGrory |
February 10, 2012
As flu season is under way, hospitals and health care facilities should consider mandating that all of their employees receive influenza vaccinations, maintains the National Business Group on Health, a nonprofit organization that is focused on representing large employers' perspective on national health policy issues.
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By Mark Roberts |
January 31, 2012
The big buzz in employer health care has been about wellness. All over the nation, companies have been rolling out programs to help their employees get healthier, and some have been more proactive than others.
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By Amanda McGrory |
January 27, 2012
As employers continue to look for ways to cut health care costs and improve consumerism among the work force, consumer-directed health plans, and health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts, are expected to remain strong in 2012.
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By Amanda McGrory |
November 16, 2011
While most employers are vigilant in ensuring workplace safety, says Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, sometimes it can fall off the radar for employers that don’t deal with it on a daily basis.
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By Jeff Ackerson |
September 27, 2011
As we enter open enrollment season, brokers, advisors and benefits managers need to get up to speed on consumer-directed health plans because they are fast becoming mainstream. Brokers should be prepared to answer a threshold question: “How does the consumer-directed health plan compare with our existing plan?”
