Hospital and payer transparency has started to produce actionable changes in the health care delivery system and advisors need to ready their plan sponsor clients for what is to come. The advisors who prepare and plan for this new health insurance landscape will set themselves apart and be in the best position to benefit from these changes.

Two-thirds of employees and 68% of employers believe employer-covered health care to be the most important benefit.

Policies to reduce employer-sponsored insurance prices for physician-administered drugs are needed because they threaten access to innovative and lifesaving products for half the U.S. population, concluded a JAMA report.

Though limited research exists on marijuana's long-term health effects, legislation was passed in 2022 that opens up more opportunities for researchers to explore the impacts of CBD.