Employee-Paid

Making the decision to divert from a traditional health plan to a RBP plan is not for every firm: Good communications - and how well an employer uses their "concierge"- are the key to success, according to Imagine360 experts.

Several justices wrestled with the $6 billion bankruptcy plan for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would shield the Sackler family, who own the company, from civil lawsuits over the toll of the opioid epidemic.

Members of a Senate panel that oversees Social Security sent a letter to the agency's acting commissioner, urging her to do more to prevent overpayments and "limit harm to vulnerable beneficiaries" when trying to recover money.

To provide effective and timely access to in-network behavioral health providers, the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions has provided a tool that employers can use to ask the right questions when selecting vendors.

Although the pandemic is over, COVID-19 remains a persistent threat, as incidents of a highly mutated variant, BA.2.86, have tripled in the past 2 weeks but the CDC is confident the vaccines will be effective against the new strain.

Over the past 3 years, FTC officials have signaled they would scrutinize private equity acquisitions in health care, like the recent FTC civil lawsuit accusing one of the nation's largest anesthesiology groups of monopolistic practices.