Analysis

By aligning employers, providers and health plans around shared goals, benefits advisors can help reshape a spiraling system, incentivize quality and improve affordability.

Given recent increased litigation and its impact on the regulatory environment, benefits consultants and plan sponsors should rethink their past decisions to simply comply with the No Surprises Act (NSA).

You can avoid the most common pitfalls of ACA noncompliance if you understand the most common types of violations and then implement three strategies to prevent falling victim to them.

Using Blue Shield of California as a precedent, more health entities may scale back their reliance on their PBMs in favor of centers of excellence that provide specific services. But this new approach to pharmacy benefits needs an organized and connected way for information to be shared.

Benefits advisors can elevate these concerns and be problem-solvers for struggling SMBs at the open enrollment table this year.

As a trusted advisor, your role is to keep employers informed about trends and options that may not currently be on their radar. Here are four questions and four common misconceptions to get the conversation started with your clients.