Employee Participation

Improving financial resilience by maintaining an emergency fund requires an employee to acknowledge the value of saving for an emergency — and then commit to the savings process.

Increasingly, health system consolidations, which must balance short-term and long-term financial goals, are focused on value-based care, which promotes better care for patients and improved health outcomes at reduced prices.

The Biden administration has announced that it has finalized a new regulation that curbs the use of short-term health insurance plans that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act, limiting the plans to 90 days.

The feds face a year-end deadline to solidify or scuttle payment changes for telehealth services that allow people to "visit" a doctor in their homes, however, it's expected that Congress will "kick the can" past the November election.

"Employers can reduce benefits expenses while simultaneously boosting employee engagement by implementing cost-effective and impactful benefits strategies," says Leia Spoor, clinical director of employee benefits of Holmes Murphy.

Ninety-eight percent said they want some level of training with generative AI technology.

While 9 in 10 of leaders consider their performance management processes successful and constructive, only about half (55%) of employees feel similarly.

More patients are losing their doctors — and trust in the primary care system, according to American Medical Association's president, Jesse Ehrenfeld.