Cost-Containment

The facilities account for half of employer plan spending, and Kaufman Hall figures show that they look better.

A Healthplex customer service rep tried to see a fax and instead let cyberattackers into company systems that contained the private health data of 76,000 people.

Paul Fronstin, an Employee Benefit Research Institute analyst, sees ICHRAs appealing more to employers without health benefits than to cost-cutters.

For employers, finding and closing drug usage gaps is a claim-control strategy.

Carriers want to increase the "real-time" approval rate to 80% by 2027, from about 20% today.

Federal law bans state meddling in self-insured benefits. States want to curb pharmacy benefit managers. Regulators are thinking.