Consumer Driven Health Care

The Employers Council on Flexible Compensation (ECFC) is asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to clarify where flexible savings arrangements (FSAs) fit in with the new Form W-2 health benefits reporting requirements.

In office just six months, Gov. Rick Scott has kept his campaign promises and then some: cutting corporate taxes, reducing the size of government, drug testing welfare recipients, making government workers pay into their pensions, and privatizing Medicaid.

Have questions about health savings accounts? You can get answers online this week.

More than 40 percent of employees at mid-sized businesses say having a wellness program offered by their employer would, or does, encourage them to work harder and perform better, according to a recent Principal Financial Well-Being Index.

A new study from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that giving employees access to paid sick days reduces visits to hospital emergency rooms, saving $1 billion every year.

Chronic health conditions, most of which are somewhat self-inflicted, drive chronic health spending, which makes things more expensive for all of us.

The way more and more Americans receive health care coverage is changing. The old days of employers picking up the health care tab for employees and their families are gone.

Lack of knowledge and desire to maintain status quo are barriers to offering these cost-saving plans