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Employers desperately need to fix the lack of engagement around benefits -- and benefit advisors can help.

Last year, about 7 in every 10 (69%) mental health related leaves of absence were taken by women.

As we confront the challenges of rising health care costs in 2024, it's essential to understand the factors driving these increases and explore proactive solutions to mitigate their impact.

The suit alleges Aledade cheated Medicare out of millions using billing software "rigged" to make patients appear sicker than they were, such as coding anxiety as depression, boosting payments by $3,300 a year per patient.

Although employers choose the plans in order to negotiate lower health care prices, they generally lack market power to do so effectively, so they need to critically assess whether it will help their bottom line, says a new study.

Following the Change Healthcare cyberattack, UnitedHealth Group has announced that it has advanced payments to address bottlenecks in the payments system and it will start releasing new medical claims software this week.

The escalating warfare over pricing, which stems from hospital price transparency regulations that have allowed hospitals to compare reimbursement rates with one another, can leave patients without continuity of coverage.

The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, which represents large employers that purchase health coverage, identifies and debunks top hospital inaccuracies around high, rapidly rising, prices, in a new report.