Voluntary Benefits

The HRA Council and Centene are making a new push for bills that could make cash-for-coverage plans easier to use.

Seven of the 130 services included in the current Affordable Care Act preventive services package typically cost an employer's self-insured health plan or a group health insurance provider more than $1,000 per patient.

CVS Health investors reacted to the announcement by pushing the price of that company's shares down to less than $75.83, from $77. 80, immediately after the news came out.

Mark Bertolini's new role could be good for individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements.

The health insurer group's new employer-provided coverage primer ends with a plea for stability.

Employers and their benefits advisors should watch carefully for signs of health care providers charging employers more to make up for federal Affordable Care Act premium tax credit subsidy cuts, an analyst said.