Cost-Containment

Wearable devices that track your activity levels are increasingly turning up in corporate wellness programs, but will Americans stick with the new technology, or are these fitness trackers a fad?

Employers are trying out all kinds of approaches to better manage retiree health costs, though the day will eventually come when just a handful will offer such benefits to the over-65 set.

As employers weigh their employee insurance options in light of healthcare reform, research continues to suggest that many are not inclined to end sponsored coverage of their workforce.

Its a bitter pill for a lot of employee benefits brokers, but shifting their clients workers to a health insurance exchange may be the right option now that Obamacare appears here to stay.

Avoiding, or at least putting off, the so-called Cadillac tax in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is on a lot of employers minds.

The ex-managers say they engaged in tactics such as asking employees to continue working after they clocked out or adding unpaid breaks to time sheets.

Participants were incentivized to stop using the ER as a quickie clinic.

More than half of the cost $10,000 is attributed to presenteeism, the term coined to describe what happens when someone shows up for work but gives less than 100 percent.