Voluntary Benefits

Employers here may have a harder time bargaining with the providers and policymakers.

Stop-loss issuers have been talking for more than a year about seeing a broad, powerful surge in claims.

They are also worried about hospital prices and states nibbling away at ERISA preemption.

One thing a big new batch of Census data shows is where employer plans still have some clout.

The U.S. workers in the farming, fishing and forestry industries were only about half as likely to have private health coverage in 2024 as architects and engineers.

The PBMs predict the measure would add $1,800 in costs per enrollee per year.