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While public health officials are urging masks in Los Angeles, New York City and other areas, employers across the US might encourage employees to stay home if they are not feeling well and are symptomatic, recommend experts.

New Jersey, which has one of the country's largest state employee health plans, has an ongoing conflict with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, alleging the insurer failed to deliver on a program designed to reduce health care costs.

KFF warns that the per-dose commercial price could quadruple.

The 15 states that limit postpartum Medicaid eligibility to 60 days are predominantly a swath of Republican-led states that stretch from the Mountain West to the South.

There is consensus in the business world that health care costs are too high; the question is how to address the problem.

Here are three key benefits strategies that companies and their benefits consultants can leverage to address new employee requirements, while empowering organizations to contain skyrocketing health care costs.