Benefits

A survey also found employees have fears about potential changes to health care policy coming out of Washington.

Any large-scale action on retirement reform will require trust, a willingness to take risk and experiment, and a sense of the greater good.

Cost-shifting to employees is less utilized.

Providers, namely hospitals and large regional health care systems, are increasingly being asked by payers to accept at-risk reimbursement, where payment is heavily influenced by the quality and...

Mercer notes that employers were able to contain these costs without enrolling more employees into high-deductible plans.

HealthMine says its findings are relevant to the increased use of account-based health plans, which include health savings accounts (HSAs) and health reimbursement accounts (HRAs), and increase plan...

A report from the NIRS argues how DB plans create more savings and retirement income for teachers than DC plans.

But, self-funding health insurance is becoming more popular as a way to cut costs, United Benefit Advisors finds.

More than half of Millennials struggle to pay their doctors’ bills or have an acquaintance who does.

A study shows consumers might not understand health savings accounts as well as they believe.

Social Security and Supplemental Security Income recipients will see a 2% increase next year—the largest increase since 2012.

Survey results indicate that 67% of Americans reported at least one chronic health condition.

The youngest employees especially feel unprepared to decide what plan they should choose, according to a survey from Aflac.

Respondents to a survey from Mercer reported preferences for policies to mitigate costs.

The latest study from the Segal Group includes plan sponsors’ picks for the top five cost-management strategies.

Of the HSAs with distributions, the average amount distributed was less than the average contribution, resulting in balance increases, EBRI finds.

Employers are looking at various cost-controlling strategies such as partnering with Centers of Excellence and offering telemedicine services.

Seventy-nine percent of employees indicate they have experienced an increase in health care costs, and of those, 63% say they are reducing the amount they are saving for...