Employee Participation

Brokers need to play a stronger consultative role by reminding their clients that HR already has a proven weapon to help combat employee dissatisfaction: core benefits.

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.

A majority (66%) of employers feel that their current benefit plan is effective or highly effective in attracting and retaining key talent.

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.

New state laws now provide insured Americans in Texas and Tennessee the option to save money when they pay cash for more affordable services or use any out-of-network provider that offers more affordable care.