Consumer Driven Health Care

I’m not a tax advisor, but I do sell health savings accounts for a living, and I know how panicked some people can get at this time of the year – it’s time to file their taxes but they’re not quite sure what to do.

Senior leadership is continuing to put an emphasis on improving employee health, according a survey by Willis North America's Human Capital Practice, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker.

Congressmen Charles Boustany, R-La., and John Larson, D-Conn., introduced the Medical Flexible Spending Account Improvement Act, which would allow consumers to withdraw and pay taxes on any residual funds in their medical flexible spending accounts.

If you have clients who have recently adopted high-deductible health plans with health savings accounts, now is not the time to relax.

Consumer-driven health care got another booth recently with the release of the latest study of health care claims and utilization by Aetna.

Fewer employees are placing a high priority on managing and improving their health, according to a recent Towers Watson survey of more than 9,000 large- and mid-size employees.