Tag: employer health benefits costs

Specific benefit offerings and increased communications are needed to help employees and to keep costs down.

Using claims data to compare fully insured and self-insured benefits, and seeing the flexibility self-insuring provides can help employers overcome...

Employees want employers to educate them throughout the year and offer tools to help them allocate their money among benefits,...

UBERDOC for Employers makes health care more accessible and can be paid for using a health savings account or medical...

It’s uncertain what will happen with costs going forward, however.

NewsDash readers share whether they’ve ever sacrificed retirement savings because of health benefit costs.

The program has been found to reduce employee hospitalizations and emergency room visits, resulting in reduced health care costs for...

But many said they might be looking to cut costs in other ways.

The COVID-19 Cost Impact Model assesses the impact of the pandemic on health benefit costs, and MedFactor estimates the relative...

Only 5% of employers with self-funded health insurance already have a financial impact assumption, while 21% say they have begun...

Actions to mitigate increasing health benefit costs for this year or next will need to be as unique as the...

The interest-free, payroll-deducted payment plan can keep employees ‘away from more financially toxic payment options,’ such as taking a retirement...

States and insurers have done so for fully insured plans, and self-insured employers should follow suit.

Offering voluntary benefits, enhancing benefit communications and telemedicine are just some of the new strategies employers are using or considering.

Employers are asking benefits brokers to engage employees on benefits choices and offer better price transparency, among other things.

Employers see a business case for investing more in health and well-being, but overall cost savings is a benefit as...

The Cadillac Tax, which many said would limit health care choice and cause greater cost-shifting to employees, was repealed.

Small Employers can ask for incentives and pricing models from insurers, focus on primary care, and band together to reduced...

Many are turning to innovative tech-enabled programs that cut costs for them while not shifting costs to employees, Mercer found.